Her earlier television appearances include Mr. In a 1999 interview with Strings Magazine, she cited people influential to her development as a musician and a student, including David Zinman, the conductor of the Baltimore Symphony and Hahn's mentor since she was ten, and Lorin Maazel, with whose Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra she performed in Europe. In 1996, she debuted at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, playing Saint-Saens’s third violin concerto. Her German debut came in 1995 with a performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Lorin Maazel and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She made her international debut in 1994 performing the Bernstein Serenade in Hungary with Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Soon thereafter she debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. In 1991, at age 11, Hahn made her major orchestral debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She also spent four summers in the total-immersion language programs in German, French and Japanese at Middlebury College. During this time she studied violin with Jaime Laredo and studied chamber music with Felix Galimir and Gary Graffman. Īt 16 she had completed the Curtis Institute's university requirements, but she remained for several years to pursue elective courses until her graduation in May 1999 with a Bachelor of Music degree.

She learned the études of Kreutzer, Ševčík, Gaviniès and Rode, Paganini's Caprices, 28 violin concertos, and chamber works and assorted showpieces. In 1990, at age ten, she was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Jascha Brodsky for seven years. From 1985 to 1990 she studied in Baltimore under Klara Berkovich. She participated in a Suzuki class for a year.

Ī musically precocious child, Hahn began playing the violin one month before her fourth birthday in the Suzuki Program of Baltimore's Peabody Institute. Her father, Steve Hahn, was a journalist and librarian her paternal great-grandmother was from Bad Dürkheim in Germany. Hahn was born in Lexington, Virginia, on November 27, 1979, and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland.

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