Adolphus Hailstork

Biography

Adolphus Hailstork (born 17 April 1941, Rochester, New York) received his doctorate in composition from Michigan State University, where he was a student of H. Owen Reed. He completed earlier studies at the Manhattan School of Music under Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond, the American Institute at Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger, and Howard University with Mark Fax.

Dr. Hailstork’s works have been performed by such prestigious ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, and the New York Philharmonic, under the batons of leading conductors such as James DePreist, Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, and Lorin Maazel.

Dr. Hailstork, who has received honorary doctorates from Michigan State University and the College of William and Mary, resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and serves as Professor of Music and Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion University in Norfolk. In 1992, Dr. Hailstork was proclaimed a Cultural Laureate of the State of Virginia.

Works for Winds

• American Fanfare, An
• American Guernica
• And Deliver Us From Evil (Hailstork)
• Celebration (Hailstork)
• New Wade'n Water
• Norfolk Pride
• Out of the Depths (Hailstork)
• Queen Ceremonial
• Starburst

References

None discovered thus far.