Alumnus Jubal Fulks in Concert

This weekend, UNCSA will enjoy a visit from Jubal Fulks, a graduate of our high school, Bachelors and Masters programs, now Associate Professor of Violin at the University of Northern Colorado and member of the artist faculty of Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. The UNCSA Music community is excited to hear Jubal perform on Saturday, March 24, at 7:30 PM in Watson Hall, and we also look forward to his violin master class this Friday evening at 8 PM in Crawford Hall.  

Jubal Fulks has performed as soloist with orchestras across the United States and has been heard on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.” His orchestral experience includes Grammy-nominated performances with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in New York City at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Alice Tully Hall, in the Jazz at Lincoln Center series, and the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. As a recitalist, he has appeared at numerous summer festivals and concert series in the United States and Asia and has toured extensively in Europe with orchestras and chamber groups. While in the doctoral program at Stony Brook University, he won the prestigious Ackerman Prize for Excellence in Performance and performed the Berg Violin Concerto under the baton of Gunther Schuller. A winner of national honors from the American String Teachers Association and the National Federation of Music Clubs, he has been awarded fellowships with Aspen Music Festival’s Contemporary Ensemble and the New York Institute for Contemporary Music, where he performed with pianist Ursula Oppens and Speculum Musicae. He is an active chamber musician, including national touring in the baroque duo “Corde à vide” with harpsichordist Dr. Lorna Peters, and as a member of the Colorado Piano Trio.  

Before his appointment at the University of Northern Colorado, Dr. Fulks served on the faculty of the University of Alabama and at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. During the summer months he is on the faculty of Green Mountain Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont and has been a faculty member at Montecito International Music Festival in California, Lutheran Summer Music Festival in Iowa, and Kinhaven Music School in Weston, Vermont. After receiving Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from UNCSA, where he studied with Kevin Lawrence, Fulks received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where his teacher was Mitchell Stern.  

This Saturday at 7:30 PM in Watson Hall, Jubal Fulks will play a recital of 20th and 21st-century works, including three North Carolina premieres. The program will explore his experiences and personal connections with UNCSA, and includes challenging works for solo violin, violin and piano, and violin and electronics:

• Steve Reich: Violin Phase
• Joseph DiPonio: (G)roundings
• John Arrigo: Veneziana
• Luciano Berio: Sequenza VIII
• Arvo Pärt: Fratres
• Elliott Carter: Four Lauds
• Thomas Little: Imaginary Poetry
• Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms no. 9 

Saturday’s recital is offered at no charge; we hope you and your friends will be able to come hear this terrific alumnus of UNCSA!