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singer-songwriterHarris' latest project is the formation of the S-Band... s-band.com This is the result of years of living my music and writing words about things that are important to people. violinistHarris Shilakowsky is the founder and first violinist of the Shilakowsky String Quartet.In 1994, Mr. Shilakowsky, performed as a guest leader (a position leading the violin section) of the London Symphony Orchestra performing recording sessions, tours and performances under music director Michael Tilson Thomas and Sir George Solti, Sir Colin Davis and André Previn in performances with Jessye Norman, Yuri Bashmet, Peter Zimmerman, and Kiri Tekanawa, among others. Upon returning to the USA, Shilakowsky was called to serve as concertmaster for the Bocksch Concerts Production of My Fair Lady, the European Tour with Maximillian Schell. Harris Shilakowsky is a former concertmaster of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (D.Stahl), the New Orleans Symphony under Maxim Shostakovich, the Omaha Symphony directed by Bruce Hangen, the Grand Rapids Symphony (Semyon Bychkov), the Orquesta Sinfonica de Las Palmas and the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra. He has also worked with the Boston, Chautauqua and Nashville Symphonies, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Handel-Haydn Society of Boston, and the Opera Company of Boston. Other recent U.S. free-lance work includes guest-concertmaster work with Vermont Symphony, the Granite State Symphony, the Nashua Symphony. He was also Concertmaster/contractor of professional orchestras for Nutcracker performances with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre at the Collins Center in Andover, Massachusetts. As solo violinist, Shilakowsky has appeared with the New Orleans, Omaha and Charleston Symphony Orchestras, the New England Conservatory and Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestras performing Mozart, Bach and Dvorak Violin Concertos, Vaughan-Williams' "Lark Ascending" and Ravel's "Tzigane", the Brahms Concerto and Chausson "Poeme" and in live recitals on NPR Stations in Boston, Omaha and Nashville. He performed recitals in 1999 in Brockton, MA at Temple Beth Emunah, in 1998 at the Newton Free Public Library & Jewish Community Center in Newton, MA, and in Johannesburg & Pietersburg, South Africa. He also performs with the Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Pops, the Boston Ballet, Pro Arté Chamber Orchestra, and the American Symphony. He was a first violinist and on-stage solo musician for the Really Useful Group 'Frankfurt-1995' production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard. In 1995, he completed a three month contract of West Side Story performing at the Schiller Theater in Berlin, Germany. conductor
Shilakowsky founded & directs &
performs as violin
soloist of the
Bristol Chamber
Orchestra,
a professional
ensemble
dedicated to performing music of all periods in diverse settings,
educational concerts & special events including choral
concerts. He was founding director of the Sharon Community Chamber
Orchestra and has also
directed rehearsals with youth orchestras in Burlington, VT and at New
England Conservatory of Music. In 2002, Shilakowsky was guest conductor
of the Rocky Ridge Music Festival Orchestra (YAS program). He has
conducted chamber orchestra concerts in Grand Rapids and Baroque
readings in Germany with international musical colleagues. He was also
the Founder & Director of the Strauss Orchestra of Boston and
conductor of fund-raising concerts for Pro Arté Chamber
Orchestra and the Boston Philharmonic. |
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