A6 2013 Program Notes, Book 1
American violinist
STEFAN JACKIW
is fast earning a reputation
on both sides of the Atlantic. Of Korean/German heritage, Jackiw
began studying the violin at the age of four; his teachers have
included Zinaida Gilels, Michèle Auclair and Donald Weilerstein.
In 2002 he was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career
Grant. At age fourteen, Jackiw made a sensational debut with
the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall performing
the Mendelssohn Concerto and “took the London music world
by storm” (The Strad). In 2002 Jackiw made his debut with the
Baltimore Symphony and has become a regular guest with that orchestra and toured
with them to Japan. Elsewhere in North America, he has performed with the orchestras
of New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati, Toronto and Chicago. He also appeared with the YouTube Symphony
in Sydney at the invitation of Michael Tilson-Thomas. In recital, Stefan Jackiw has
performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Louvre, Aspen, Ravinia, Kennedy
Center, Mostly Mozart, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall.
He gave the world premiere of a new work for violin and piano by American composer
David Fulmer in Carnegie Hall in November 2012. Recent highlights include concerts
with RTVE Madrid, BBC Scottish Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Tapiola Sinfonietta,
Residentie Orkest, Singapore Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic, Adelaide, West
Australian and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, Netherlands Philharmonic and a Far
East tour with the Royal Philharmonic.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
carlos kalmar’s
biography can be found on page 8.
