Twenty-year-old violinist Stefan Jackiw is already recognized as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Currently a student at Harvard University as well as an Artist Diploma candidate at the New England Conservatory where he studies with Donald Weilerstein, Mr. Jackiw has already embarked on an impressive performing career. In recent seasons Mr. Jackiw has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic, the Indianapolis, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Rochester, and Seattle symphonies, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Pops, with whom he made his debut in 1997 playing the Wieniawski Violin Concerto No. 2 under Keith Lockhart. He has also made a solo appearance at youth concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
In the spring of 2000 Mr. Jackiw made his European debut in London to great critical acclaim, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Benjamin Zander. In Europe he has also performed with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and, most recently, the Liverpool Philharmonic. In September 2002 Mr. Jackiw made his debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Yuri Temirkanov followed by a tour of Japan with Baltimore that featured his Tokyo debut at Suntory Hall. Also in the fall of 2002 he made debuts under Roberto Abbado with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as well as with the l'Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Florentino. In April 2003 he made his Chicago Symphony debut, also conducted by Abbado. In December 2003 Mr. Jackiw was invited by Temirkanov to play the Barber Violin Concerto as part of the Winter Arts Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Mr. Jackiw is an active recitalist, having already performed on numerous important series. In the summer of 2001 Mr. Jackiw was invited to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, where Christoph Eschenbach presented him in a collaborative recital. He has performed on the Rising Stars Series of the Ravinia Festival and on the Boston Celebrity Series in recital at Jordan Hall. In 2004 Mr. Jackiw gave his New York recital debut on the "Accolades" series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as his Paris recital debut on the Concerts du Jeudi series at the Louvre.
Stefan Jackiw plays the "Kiesewetter" Stradivarius, 1721, on extended loan from Clement Arrison through The Stradivari Society of Chicago.
Born to physicist parents, Mr. Jackiw began playing the violin at the age of 4. His past teachers include Zinaida Gilels and Michèle Auclair. In 2002 Mr. Jackiw was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.
