Hadelich has performed with all the major American orchestras as well as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, London Philharmonic, and many other ensembles.
In the 2025 summer festivals season, Hadelich appears with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood Music Festival, Orchestre de Paris at the Lucerne Festival, as well as BBC Proms in London, Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, and the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago.
In the 2025/26 season, Hadelich is the Artist in Residence with the Boston Symphony Orchestra where he is featured in concerto, chamber music, and solo violin recital formats. He also appears with the Chicago Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Houston Symphony and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Further invitations bring him to Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, NCPA Orchestra Beijing, Orchestre National de Lyon and São Paulo Symphony. Recitals take him to New York, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Graz, Heidelberg, Cremona and Taipei.
In 2016, he received a GRAMMY Award for his recording of Dutilleux’s Violin Concerto “L’Arbre des songes” with Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot. A Warner Classics Artist, his most recent album “American Road Trip”, a journey through the landscape of American music with pianist Orion Weiss, was released in August 2024 and was awarded an OPUS KLASSIK in 2025 for Chamber Music Recording of the Year.
Dual American-German citizen born in Italy to German parents, rose to fame when he won the Gold Medal at the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Further distinctions followed, including an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009), U.K.’s Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship (2011), and an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter in the U. K. (2017). In 2018, he was named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by the influential magazine Musical America. Hadelich holds an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School and in 2021, was appointed to the violin faculty at Yale School of Music.
He plays a 1744 violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, known as ‘Leduc, ex Szeryng’, on loan from the Tarisio Trust.
