{"id":167,"date":"2019-12-28T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sophia-hahn.com\/about-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-07T19:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T17:58:35","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sophia-hahn.com\/en\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Personal Life<\/strong><\/p>

Born 26 August 1997 in Vienna, Austria<\/p>

Education<\/h4>

Primary school with the Vienna Boys\u2018 Choir (Wiener S\u00e4ngerknaben) and subsequently at the \u201cEvangelische Volkschule\u201d at Karlsplatz.
In June 2015, she passed her A-Levels (Matura) at Musikgymnasium Neustiftgasse in Vienna.<\/p>

Studies<\/h4>

When she was 6 years old, Sophia was accepted into the special class for highly gifted students (Hochbegabtenlehrgang) of the Vienna University of Music. Her first teachers were Ms. Marina Sorokowa<\/b>, Ulla<\/b> and Veronika Schulz<\/b> in the class of Prof. Gerhard Schulz<\/b>. From 2013 until 2018, she studied with Prof. Leonid Sorokow<\/b> as a regular student at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Since 2018, she has been a student of Prof. Elisabeth Kropfitsch<\/b> at the same university.
Since 2017, she has also been inscribed as a regular student of Prof. Violeta Smailovic-Huart<\/b> at the Schola Cantorum in Paris.<\/p>

Competitions<\/h4>

At the age of 6, Sophia won first prize with distinction at the Prima la Musica<\/b> Youth Music Competition in Vienna.
In April 2019, she won the international Alexandre Glazounov<\/b> competition in Paris.<\/p>

Master classes<\/h4>

She regularly attends master classes both in Austria and abroad, with, among others:<\/p>

    • Prof. Michael Frischenschlager (A,J)<\/li>
    • Prof. Gerhard Schulz (A)<\/li>
    • Eszter Haffner (A, IT, HU)<\/li>
    • Chia Hong Drapal Liao (J)<\/li>
    • Violeta Smailovic-Huart (F)<\/li>
    • Prof. Andr\u00e1s Csontha (HU)<\/li>
    • Jan Bjoranger (IT)<\/li>
    • Bard Monsen (IT)<\/li>
    • Ani Kavafian (IT)<\/li>
    • Luc-Marie Aguera (IT)<\/li>
    • Regina Brandst\u00e4tter (A)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>

      and many more\u2026<\/p>

      Important concerts<\/h4>

      In July 2015, she played Mozart\u2018s Sinfonia Concertante with orchestra at the MuTh \u2013 Concertsaal of the Vienna Boys\u2019 Choir; in January 2016, she played Mendelssohn’s Concerto in E minor with orchestra.
      In June 2018, she played a charity concert, \u201cVoices of Migration\u201c together with Juilliard University professor B\u00e4rli Nugent<\/b> at the Vienna International Center in Vienna.
      In October 2019, she returned to the stage of the MuTh Concert Hall in Vienna together with opera singer Valentina Nafornita<\/b> for a charity concert.
      She plays solo concerts with Eduard Kutrowatz<\/b> (founder of the Liszt Festival in Raiding) for example as part of the \u201cSchubertiade\u201d festival in Vienna’s Konzerthaus.
      In December 2019, she performed together with the Hungarian opera singer Eszter S\u00fcmegi<\/b> in Budapest, Hungary.<\/p>

      Experience<\/h4>

      For three years, Sophia was the concert master<\/b> and also a soloist of the Orchestra of \u201cMusikgymnasium Wien\u201d giving concerts at the “Wiener Musikverein” and at the “Wiener Konzerthaus”. As such, she played numerous performances every year, both as a soloist and as a member of different chamber music ensembles, including as a caf\u00e9 violinist.
      She is passionate about chamber music<\/b>, string quartets, duets, and has played in various chamber music formations as first violinist. She debuted as a caf\u00e9 violinist in February 2014 at the Palace of Justice in Vienna. She has her own string quartet (since mid-2016).
      She has gathered experience as an orchestra member<\/b> working with a number of different orchestras, including the orchestra of the \u201cMusikgymnasium Wien\u201d, Strau\u00df Festival Orchester, Mozartorchester, Kamerata Schulz, Schloss Sch\u00f6nbrunn Orchester, Salonorchester Alt-Wien im Kursalon as well as a number of smaller ensemble formations. She has also repeatedly been offered fixed-term contracts with the orchestra of Vereinigte B\u00fchnen Wien since 2016.
      She is a member of the \u201cLive Music Now\u201c <\/b> Foundation that was supported by Yehudi Menuhin<\/b>.<\/p>

      Repertoire<\/h4>

      Her repertoire includes the major violin concertos of Bruch, Wieniawski, Mozart, Saint-Saens, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Khachaturian, Prokofiev, Brahms, Glazounov \u2026 as well as sonatas, suites and recital pieces by Beethoven, Franck, Haydn, Mozart, Sinding, Bach, Bart\u00f3k, Ysaye, Paganini, Ravel, Brahms, Schubert, Richard Strauss and many more.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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