About our Featured Performer 

Jubal Fulks is an award‑winning, critically acclaimed violinist whose career spans solo, chamber, and orchestral performance across the United States and internationally. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras nationwide and has been featured on National Public Radio’s Performance Today, highlighting his versatility and artistic depth. His orchestral work includes GRAMMY‑nominated performances with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as engagements at New York City’s Mostly Mozart Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

Fulks’ academic credentials are equally distinguished. He holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in violin performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts and earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he studied under Mitchell Stern. During his doctoral studies, he won the prestigious Ackerman Prize for Excellence in Performance and performed the Berg Violin Concerto with the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra under Gunther Schuller. His teaching career includes faculty appointments at the University of Alabama, Luther College, SUNY–Stony Brook, and Michigan Technological University, along with master classes at universities throughout the country.

Since 2013, Fulks has served as Professor of Violin at the University of Northern Colorado, where he leads the string area and was named the 2022 College of Performing and Visual Arts Scholar of the Year. He is a founding member of Sinfonia Spirituosa, a baroque chamber orchestra based in Sacramento, and a violinist of the Colorado Piano Trio, which has performed nationally—including at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall—and maintains an active recording and recital schedule. His summer teaching includes the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Kinhaven Music School, Montecito International Music Festival, and Lutheran Summer Music Festival. Fulks lives in Greeley, Colorado, where he continues to balance a vibrant performance career with influential pedagogical work.