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Office: Moody Music 105
Email: njfulks@bama.ua.edu
Phone: 348-1479

Violinist JUBAL FULKSis an award-winning and critically acclaimed artist and teacher who specializes in both contemporary and Baroque repertory.  As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras across the United States and has been heard on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.”  His orchestral experience includes the 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 has toured extensively in Europe with orchestras and chamber groups.

Dr. Fulks holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in violin performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts where he studied with Kevin Lawrence, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where his teacher and mentor was the late Mitchell Stern.  While there, he won the prestigious Ackerman Prize for Excellence in Performance and performed the Berg Violin Concerto with the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra 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 and Festival for Contemporary Music.

Recently appointed Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Alabama, he served previously on the faculty of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.  Dr. Fulks has also taught at the State University of New York-Stony Brook and Michigan Technological University, and he continues to conduct master classes at universities throughout the country.  During the summer months he has taught and performed at Lutheran Summer Music Festival in Iowa, in Vermont at Kinhaven Music School, Killington Music Festival, and at Saint Michael’s College in Burlington for the Vermont Youth Orchestra.  He currently performs in several ensembles with colleagues from various universities and maintains an active recording and national recital schedule.