| Short Bio | Adolphus Hailstork received his doctorate in composition from Michigan State University,where he was a student of H. Owen Reed. He had previously studied at the Manhattan
School of Music, under Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond, at the American Institute at Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger, and at Howard University with Mark Fax.
Dr. Hailstork has written numerous works for chorus, solo voice, piano, organ, various chamber ensembles, band, and orchestra. Dr. Hailstork resides in Virginia Beach Virginia, and is Professor of Music and Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion University in Norfolk. |
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| Long Bio | Adolphus Hailstork received his doctorate in composition from Michigan State University,
where he was a student of H. Owen Reed. He had previously studied at the Manhattan
School of Music, under Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond, at the American Institute at
Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger, and at Howard University with Mark Fax.
Dr. Hailstork has written numerous works for chorus, solo voice, piano, organ, various
chamber ensembles, band, and orchestra
Significant performances by major orchestras (Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York)
have been conducted by leading conductors such as James de Priest, Paul Freeman
Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maezel, Jo Ann Falletta and David Lockington.
Recent commissions include RISE FOR FREEDOM, an opera about the Underground
Railroad, premiered in the fall of 2007 by the Cincinnati Opera Company, SET ME ON A
ROCK (re: Hurricane Katrina), for chorus and orchestra, commissioned by the Houston
Choral Society (2008), and the choral ballet, THE GIFT OF THE MAGI, for treble chorus
and orchestra, (2009). In the fall of 2011, ZORA, WE’RE CALLING YOU, a work for
speaker and orchestra was premiered by the Orlando Symphony. I SPEAK OF PEACE
commissioned by the Bismarck Symphony (Beverly Everett, conductor) in honor of (and
featuring the words of) President John F. Kennedy was premiered in November of 2013.
Hailstork’s newest major works, are ROBESON, an operatic theater work (written for the
Trilogy Opera Company of Newark, New Jersey), and HERCULES (“the veriest dandy
slave”) a concert overture for the Grand Rapids Symphony which was premiered in
October 2014. Current projects are BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND for the Atlanta
Festival (November 2016) and NDEMARA for the Myrelinques Festival of France (May
2017)
Dr. Hailstork resides in Virginia Beach Virginia, and is Professor of Music and Eminent
Scholar at Old Dominion University in Norfolk. |
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