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Hilary Hahn
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DATE / TI M E
Saturday 01 June
at 18:00 & 20:00
Just Bach.
D U R ATI ON
1:00
TICKET
Standard: 530
Senior: 477
Under 30: 190
FiB Fordel: 424
BT Fordel: 397
T R A N S P O RT
Transport
included in ticket,
see p. 14.
The American violinist Hilary Hahn has always
gone her own way. She astonished critics when
she released her first album at the age of 17.
Not only are Bach’s works for solo violin consi-
dered to be amongst the most demanding for
the instrument – and thus a daring choice for
a debut album – but her performance was so
compelling that a reviewer wrote: ‘I would go so
far as to say that I’ve never heard this legendary,
impossible piece of music played on a higher
level, technically and musically, than it is on
Hahn’s debut CD.’
Twenty years, a great fanbase, three Grammy
awards and eighteen recordings later, the violi-
nist returns to Bach. On the album Hilary Hahn
released in autumn 2018 she has recorded the
remaining three of Bach’s works for violin solo,
and this season she gives Bach recitals from
Tokyo to San Francisco – and in Bergen.
Hilary Hahn is known for her clear, vibrant
musicality, her thorough interpretation of a wide
variety of works, and an uncommon ability to
make contact with her audience. As an experi-
enced blogger, she has recently instigated an
Instagram programme – #100daysofpractice
– to demystify the creative process, and is
equally at home bringing her violin along to
a knitting club or maternity course as to the
world’s greatest concert halls.
Hilary Hahn violin
Supported by The Savings Bank
Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and
Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation
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