Under the direction of Music Director & Conductor Daniel Meyer, the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra will conclude its 2026 summer concert series with special guest soloist Stefan Jackiw on violin. The program will feature works by Jennifer Higdon, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Randall Thompson.
There will be a Pre-Concert Lecture at 6:15 p.m. in Orchestra Hall.
PROGRAM
Jackiw is one of America’s foremost violinists, captivating audiences with playing that blends poetry and purity with impeccable technique. Praised for “uncommon musical substance” and for performances “striking for their 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 many others.
In the 2025-26 season, Jackiw returns to the Pittsburgh Symphony for Korngold’s Concerto, the Baltimore Symphony for Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, and the Indianapolis Symphony for Berg’s Violin Concerto. He launches the Austin Symphony’s season with Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, which he also performs with the Vancouver Symphony. He joins the Seoul Philharmonic and Mei-Ann Chen for Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy and performs Dvořák’s Concerto with the Kansas City Symphony.
Jackiw will make his debut at London’s Southbank Centre in a special trio project with cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan. He continues touring with Junction Trio with engagements at Chamber Music Sedona, Sanford-Hill Piano Series, Noe Music, Caramoor and the Jacksonville Symphony. As a recitalist, he returns to Montclair State University, Denver Friends of Chamber Music, Harvard University, Friends of Music Sleepy Hollow and The Rockefeller University.
Highlights of his 2024-25 season include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra under Santtu-Matias Rouvali, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the Suwon Philharmonic, the Pasadena Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Erie Philharmonic and the Jacksonville Symphony. He continued touring with Junction Trio, returning to the 92NY stage with a program that included a world premiere by John Zorn and performing at Rockefeller University.
Jackiw opened his 2023-24 season with a return to the New York Philharmonic performing Barber’s Concerto with Jaap van Zweden. His season also featured a quadruple world premiere at Roulette, appearances with the Taiwan Philharmonic and the China National Symphony and Junction Trio’s acclaimed debut at Carnegie Hall.
Jackiw tours frequently with pianist Conrad Tao and cellist Jay Campbell as part of the Junction Trio. In 2021, he premiered a new violin concerto written for him by Tao with the Atlanta Symphony and Baltimore Symphony. He also enjoys a longstanding partnership with pianist Jeremy Denk, with whom he recorded the complete Ives Violin Sonatas for Nonesuch Records.
The album earned wide critical acclaim, with Alex Ross of The New Yorker naming Jackiw’s performance “a new standard.” In 2019, he recorded Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Inon Barnatan, Alisa Weilerstein, Alan Gilbert and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. He also premiered David Fulmer’s Jauchzende Bögen with Matthias Pintscher and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen at the Heidelberger Frühling.
Jackiw has performed at major festivals and in renowned concert halls around the world including the Aspen Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Caramoor International Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City Festival, the Philharmonie de Paris, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Celebrity Series of Boston and Washington Performing Arts.
Born to physicist parents of Korean and Ukrainian heritage, Jackiw began violin at the age of 4. His teachers included Zinaida Gilels, Michèle Auclair and Donald Weilerstein. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory and is a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant. He plays a Domenico Montagnana violin “ex. Rossi” c. 1730, generously loaned by a private foundation. He lives in New York City.
DANIEL MEYER, MUSICAL DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR
Daniel Meyer was named Music Director & Conductor of the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra in 2019.
As Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic and Artistic Director of the Westmoreland Symphony and Cleveland’s BlueWater Chamber Orchestra, Meyer has reinvigorated orchestras with his innovative programs, engaging presence and keen musical intellect. Read more…
