American violinist Hilary Hahn chatted with Norman Lebrecht for this week's The Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3. The self-titled ~music nerd~ (no worries, Hilary, you're in good company with Lebrecht's other 2009 interviewees William Christie, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Ian Bostridge) spoke about aspects of living on road, her rise as an artist, the importance of her privacy as a performer, and about the state of classical music during the financial crisis. No glimpses into that highly-guarded private life, tho...Lebrecht's too much of a gentleman.