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Stefan Jackiw
Violin

Stefan Jackiw is one of America’s foremost violinists, captivating audiences with playing that combines poetry and purity with impeccable technique. Hailed for playing of “uncommon musical substance” that is “striking for its intelligence and sensitivity” (Boston Globe), Jackiw has appeared as a soloist with the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco symphony orchestras, among others.

In the 2024-25 season, Stefan Jackiw’s schedule is studded with performances in the United States, Europe, and Asia. In the Winter of 2024, he will join the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under Hans Graf’s baton and debut with the Suwon Philharmonic, playing Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto. Upon his return to the US in the Fall 2024, Jackiw will perform Sibelius’ Violin Concerto with the Erie Philharmonic and Jacksonville Symphony. In the Spring, The Junction Trio will return to the 92NY stage to showcase a program featuring the world premiere of a New Work by John Zorn, followed by Jackiw’s residence at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the Winter of 2025, where he will lead performances and masterclasses. Jackiw will then join the Pasadena Symphony for Mozart’s Violin Concerto, along with a Junction Trio performance at Rockefeller University and a performance of Korngold’s Violin Concerto with The Florida Orchestra in the Spring.

Jackiw opened his 2023-24 season returning to the New York Philharmonic to perform the Barber Concerto with Jaap van Zweden. His season also included a quadruple World Premiere of new works at Roulette, performances with the Taiwan Philharmonic, China National Symphony, and the Junction Trio’s highly praised debut at Carnegie Hall.

Jackiw recently performed a new Violin concerto, written for him by Conrad Tao and premiered by the Atlanta Symphony and Baltimore Symphony. He has also premiered David Fulmer’s concerto Jauchzende Bögen with Matthias Pintscher and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen at the Heidelberger Frühling.

Jackiw tours frequently with his musical partners, pianist Conrad Tao and cellist Jay Campbell, as part of the Junction Trio. He also enjoys collaborating with pianist Jeremy Denk with whom he has toured the complete Ives Violin Sonatas, which the pair recorded for future release on Nonesuch Records. In 2019, he recorded Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Inon Barnatan, Alisa Weilerstein, Alan Gilbert and Academy St. Martin in the Fields.

Jackiw has performed in numerous major festivals and concert halls around the world, including the Aspen Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Caramoor International Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Philharmonie de Paris, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Celebrity Series of Boston, and the Washington Performing Arts Society.

Born to physicist parents of Korean and Ukrainian descent, Stefan Jackiw began playing the violin at the age of four. His teachers have included Zinaida Gilels, Michèle Auclair, and Donald Weilerstein. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, as well as an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory, and is the recipient of a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. Jackiw plays a violin made in 1705 by Vincenzo Ruggieri. He lives in New York City.

Adolphus Hailstork
Composer

Adolphus Hailstork received his doctorate in composition from Michigan State University, where he was a student of H. Owen Reed. He completed earlier studies at the Manhattan School of Music under Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond, the American Institute at Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger, and Howard University with Mark Fax.

Dr. Hailstork has written across a variety of genres, producing works for chorus, solo voice, solo piano, organ, various chamber ensembles, band, and orchestra. His works have been performed by prestigious ensembles such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, under the batons of leading conductors such as James DePreist, Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, and Lorin Maazel. The composer’s music has been recorded by a variety of ensembles for the Naxos and Albany Records labels.

The composer’s early compositions include Celebration!, recorded by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1976, and two works for band, Out of the Depths and American Guernica, published in 1977 and 1983, both of which won national competitions. Consort Piece for Mixed Septet, commissioned by the Norfolk Chamber Ensemble and published in 1995, was awarded First Prize by the University of Delaware Festival of Contemporary Music. 1999 saw the premieres of Dr. Hailstork’s Symphony No. 2, commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, as well as his second opera, Joshua’s Boots, commissioned by the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and the Kansas City Lyric Opera.

Commissions from the early 2000s include Earthrise, a large-scale choral work premiered by James Conlon and the 2006 Cincinnati May Festival Chorus, Two Studies on Chant Melodies for the American Guild of Organists 2006 National Convention, and Whitman’s Journey, a cantata for Chorus and Orchestra debuted by the Master Chorale of Washington, D.C at the Kennedy Center in 2006 under the direction of Donald McCullough. Rise for Freedom, an opera about the Underground Railroad, was first performed in 2007 by the Cincinnati Opera Company. Hailstork’s Serenade for Chorus and Orchestra, commissioned by Michigan State University, and Set Me on a Rock, also for chorus and orchestra as commissioned by the Houston Choral Society, both premiered in 2008. The Gift of the Magi, commissioned by the Virginia Children’s Chorus for Treble Choir and Orchestra, debuted in 2009.

The Orlando Philharmonic premiered Zora, We’re Calling You, with a libretto by Elizabeth Van Dyke featuring text by Zora Neale Hurston, in 2011. In 2013, I Speak of Peace, commissioned by The Bismarck-Mandan Symphony in honor of President John F. Kennedy, was performed by the ensemble under the baton of Beverly Everett.

Some of Hailstork’s newest works include The World Called, based on Rita Dove’s poem Testimonial, for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra, commissioned by The Oratorio Society of Virginia and premiered in 2018, and Still Holding On, an orchestral work commissioned by The Los Angeles Philharmonic and premiered in February of the following year. Commissioned by the Harlem Chamber Players in commemoration of the 100^th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Hailstork’s Tulsa 1921 for Mezzo-Soprano, Harp, Percussion and Strings premiered on June 19th, 2021 in New York City. His Symphony No. 4 was premiered by the Louisville Orchestra in February 2022, and his highly anticipated requiem cantata in memory of George Floyd, A Knee on a Neck, with text by Herbert Martin, was first performed by The National Philharmonic in March 2022. Dr. Hailstork’s Symphony No. 5 was premiered by the National Philharmonic in June 2023. Another large-scale work, JFK: The Last Speech, a co-commission by the Colorado Music Festival, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, and Amherst College, received its premiere at the Colorado Music Festival in July 2023.

Dr. Hailstork has received honorary doctorates from the Manhattan School of Music, Michigan State University, and the College of William and Mary. He resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he is professor emeritus at Old Dominion University.