What is Hilary Hahn?
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox musical artist |name = |image = Hilary Hahn 2.jpg |caption = Hahn in 2006 |background = non_vocal_instrumentalist |birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1979|11|27}} |birth_place= [[Lexington, Virginia]], US |website = {{URL| http://www.hilaryhahn.com}} |instrument = 1864 [[Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume|J.B. Vuillaume]] (''[[Il Cannone Guarnerius|Il&nbsp;Cannone]]'' [[Giuseppe Guarneri|Guarneri]] reproduction) |genre = [[classical music|Classical]] |occupation = [[Violin]]ist }} '''Hilary Hahn''' (born November 27, 1979) is an [[Americans|American]] [[Grammy Award]]–winning [[violin]]ist. ==Biography== She was born into a [[Lutheran]] family and moved to [[Baltimore, Maryland]] at the age of three and began playing the [[violin]] one month before her fourth birthday in the [[Suzuki method|Suzuki]] Program of [[Baltimore]]’s [[Peabody Conservatory]].<ref>Sony Bio</ref> Hahn became interested in the violin after taking a walk with her father in their Baltimore neighborhood (Zaustinsky 1999). The two passed a branch of the Peabody Conservatory that advertised music lessons for four-year-olds and observed a music lesson where a young boy was playing ''[[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star]]''. Hahn began taking lessons the following week and participated in a Suzuki class for about a year. In 1995 Hahn made her international debut in [[Germany]] with a performance of the [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] [[Concerto]] for Violin and Orchestra in D Major with [[Lorin Maazel]] and the [[Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra]]. The concert was broadcast on radio and television throughout Europe. A year later, Hahn debuted at [[Carnegie Hall]] in [[New York (state)|New York]] as a soloist with the [[Philadelphia Orchestra]]. By the age of sixteen, Hahn had completed the Curtis Institute's university requirements, but elected to remain at the Institute for several more years to pursue additional elective courses, until her graduation in May 1999 with a Bachelor Of Mus