Augustin Hadelich plays Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

Thursday, Apr 18 8:00p

Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts Davis, CA

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German violinist Augustin Hadelich will replace Julia Fischer in concerts with the San Francisco Symphony led by Herbert Blomstedt April 17- 20, performing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Fischer has withdrawn for personal reasons. This is Hadelich’s debut with the San Francisco Symphony. Blomstedt also leads the Orchestra in Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5. The program is unchanged.

Augustin Hadelich, 28, is the winner of the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. He gave his first concert… Show more at 7. After receiving a diploma from the Istituto Mascagni conservatory in Livorno, Italy, Hadelich studied composition at the Hanns-Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and graduated from Juilliard, where he studied with Joel Smirnoff. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic and The Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Atlanta and Houston Symphony Orchestras, among others, and has given solo recitals at Carnegie Hall and Washington D.C.,’s Kennedy Center. He has recorded four solo CDs, including a highly acclaimed disk of masterworks for solo violin. Augustin Hadelich plays on the 1723 “Ex-Kiesewetter” Stradivari violin.

Herbert Blomstedt conductor
Augustin Hadelich violin
San Francisco Symphony

Beethoven Violin Concerto
Nielsen Symphony No. 5

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San Francisco Symphony
Founded in 1911, the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) is widely considered to be among the country’s most artistically adventurous and innovative arts institutions. Under Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT), the SFS presents more than 220 concerts and presentations annually for an audience of nearly 600,000 in its home of Davies Symphony Hall, in other Bay Area venues, and through an active national and international touring program....

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Herbert Blomstedt
Herbert Thorson Blomstedt is a leading conductor, especially famed for his early twentieth century symphonic repertory. He was born in the United States of Swedish parents who moved back to Sweden in 1929....

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