Hilary Hahn

Hilary Hahn melds expressive musicality and technical expertise with a diverse repertoire guided by artistic curiosity. She is known for performing music ranging from solo Bach, the classical repertoire to today’s major composers; she has personally championed works by more than 40 living composers, with recent commissions from Michael Abels, Barbara Assiganaak, Steven Banks, Jennifer Higdon, and Carlos Simon. Her project In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores featured newly commissioned encores from 27 composers. Among them were Einojuhani Rautavaara and Antón García Abril, whose respective works Deux Sérénades and 6 Partitas have appeared on recordings by Hahn. Hahn’s wide performance repertoire is reflected in her 23 feature recordings, which have all opened in the top ten of the Billboard charts. Recent releases include Night After Night, a collection of James Newton Howard’s scores for the films of M. Night Shyamalan, and a Gramophone Award-winning recording of Ysaÿe’s six sonatas for solo violin. Three of Hahn’s albums—her 2003 Brahms and Stravinsky concerto disc, a 2008 pairing of Schoenberg and Sibelius concerti, and her 2013 recording of In 27 Pieces—have earned Grammys. Beyond the concert hall, Hahn’s social media-based initiative #100daysofpractice, launched in 2017, has transformed practice into a community-building celebration of artistic development with nearly one million posts across platforms.