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By Mark Keresman

Published on November 24, 2008 at 4:43pm

Hilary Hahn was already a featured soloist with the Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh symphony orchestras (plus that lil' New York Philharmonic combo) when she was barely a teenager. At 29, she is regarded as one of the finest classical violinists on the planet, placing her personal stamp on the works of Bach, Mozart, and Barber. But she's no elitist — she has played and recorded with And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Tom Brosseau, and Josh Ritter.