Jaroslaw Lis, Violin
Jaroslaw Lis is an Assistant Principal second violin and a Personnel
Manager of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. He is also a member of the
faculty of the Hartt School Community Division and Greater Hartford
Academy for Performing Arts. Mr. Lis received his M.A. summa cum laude
from the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland and was a
recipient of the prestigious Polish Ministry of Culture scholarship. As
one of the youngest members of the Sinfonia Varsovia, he has worked with
Yehudi Menuhin, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Emannuel Krivine, as well as
recorded for Denon and Aperto labels. He received an Artist Diploma and
Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. He has studied
with Jan Jakuc, Wojciech Malinski, Zofia Kuberska, Julia Jakimowicz,
Krzysztof Jakowicz, Syoko Aki, and the Tokyo String Quartet, and was a
scholarship student of Nathan Milstein (Zurich, Switzerland). He has
been a member of the Assai and Essex Quartets, receiving Second Prize at
the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition with the Assai Quartet.
He recorded on Roesch Records with Assai Quartet and Ahmad Jamal. He has
been on the faculty of the Madeline Island Music Camp, the Palisade Arts
Festival, and the Friends of Music Camp in South Korea. Currently, he is
a co-director of the Music Adventure Camp at Tenuta di Spannocchia in
Tuscany where he devotes himself to coaching chamber music and enjoyment
of "slow food." He lives in West Hartford, CT with his wife Malgosia and
three children, Suzanne, Kuba, and Maya. Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Jaroslaw Lis
