JUBAL FULKS, Professor of Violin at the University of Northern Colorado, is an award-winning and critically acclaimed artist and teacher who performs music from every historical era through the works of today. As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras across the United States and has been heard on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.” As recitalist and chamber musician he has appeared at numerous summer festivals and concert series, and has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Fulks is violinist of the Colorado Piano Trio, which has performed both nationally and internationally, including Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall. The trio’s new recording “Transatlantic” was released on streaming platforms by the Centaur label in March 2025. Fulks’ orchestral experience includes GRAMMY-nominated performances with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in the San Francisco Bay Area and in New York City at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Alice Tully Hall, the Jazz at Lincoln Center series, and the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
Equally at home on baroque violin, he is co-founder and concertmaster of Sacramento-based baroque chamber orchestra “Sinfonia Spirituosa,” and has performed regularly with Lyra Baroque Orchestra, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado and Boulder Bach Festival. He recently performed the entire solo works of JS Bach on baroque violin at farmers’ markets across Colorado and in concert in Denver, with 2026 performances scheduled in Davis and Roseville, California. Dr. Fulks has held teaching positions at the University of Alabama, Luther College (Iowa), Stony Brook University (NY), and Michigan Technological University, and conducts master classes at schools and universities throughout the country. During the summer months he has been on the summer faculties at Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival and Kinhaven Music School in Vermont, Montecito International Music Festival in California, and Lutheran Summer Music Festival in Iowa, and is excited to join the faculty at the Rocky Ridge Music Festival College Intensive in summer of 2026. Dr. Fulks was named the 2022 UNC College of Performing and Visual Arts Scholar of the Year and is Artistic Co-Director of the Beethoven In The Rockies concert series. He lives in Greeley, Colorado with his wife, hornist Lauren Varley, and their children Patrick, Finnian, Oliver, and Flannery.