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ACCLAIMED VIOLINIST HILARY HAHN TO PERFORM AT OBERLIN NOVEMBER 22
NOVEMBER 14, 2002--The Artist Recital Series at Oberlin College presents the acclaimed young American violinist Hilary Hahn in concert Friday, November 22, at 8:00 p.m. in Finney Chapel. Pianist Natalie Zhu will join Hahn in a program featuring works by Ernest Bloch, Franz Schubert, and Claude Debussy; Hahn will also perform J.S. Bach’s Partita No. 3 in E Major for solo violin, BWV 1006. Biographies of both Hahn and Zhu are available online.
Tickets for the concert are still available and are priced at $7 for students; $16 for teachers, senior citizens, and those with an Oberlin College I.D.; and $20 for the general public. Tickets purchased at the door are an additional $2. All seating is reserved. Call Oberlin’s Central Ticket Service at 440-775-8169 to order tickets. Finney Chapel is located at the intersection of Lorain (Route 511) and Professor streets, across from Tappan Square.
Associate Professor of Music Theory Brian Alegant will present a free, public lecture prior to the concert at 6:30 p.m. in Kulas Recital Hall, located in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at 77 W. College Street.
At the age of 22, the Grammy-award-nominated Hahn has established herself as one of the most accomplished, compelling, and busiest artists on the international concert circuit. Recently named "America’s Best" young classical musician by Time magazine, she appears regularly with the world’s great orchestras in Europe, Asia, and North America.
Since 1996, Hahn has made five recordings for Sony Classical. Her first album, featuring Solo Sonatas and Partitas of J. S. Bach, won Diapason’s 1997 "d’Or of the Year" and spent weeks as a bestseller on the Billboard classical charts. Her next recording, concertos by Beethoven and Bernstein, brought her first Grammy nomination as well as a second Diapason
"d’Or," the Echo Klassik award for 1999, and Gramophone magazine’s "CD of the Month." Her subsequent releases have been similarly honored and acclaimed.
Hahn’s recordings, and those of Natalie Zhu, will be available for purchase in the lobby of Finney Chapel before and after the concert and during intermission; following the performance Hahn and Zhu will be on hand to autograph recordings and concert programs.
The next scheduled concert under the auspices of the Artist Recital Series is violinist William Preucil, renowned concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 8:00 p.m. in Finney Chapel.
For 124 years, the venerable Artist Recital Series, sponsored by the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College with additional support from the Friends of the Artist Recital Series, has brought distinguished, world-renowned musicians to Finney Chapel on Oberlin’s campus. Media sponsorship for the Artist Recital Series is provided by WCLV 104.9-FM, Cleveland’s classical music radio station, and WCPN 90.3-FM, Ideastream.
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865, became part of Oberlin College in 1867. It is the oldest, continuously operating conservatory in the United States, and is renowned internationally as a professional music school of the highest caliber situated within the intellectual vitality of a liberal arts college.
Media Contact: Marci Janas
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