Programs
(Educational, Collaboration, Speaking, Solo and Recital offerings)
Educational Outreach
Behind The Scenes with Study Guide (all age groups): violin, multimedia presentation focusing on a brief history of multidisciplinary collaboration, and the step by step process of creating collaborations across a variety of artistic disciplines and beyond. The program encourages students to discover the contributions of their own creativity to the developments of the violin and the overall music landscape. The study guide presents topics including basic concepts of music, collaborations, and ways for students to get engaged their own projects.
Outreach Program (all age groups): Ilana presents a survey of solo violin music, and the developments of the violin as a solo instrument through a presentation combined with performance and discussion of the historical background of the music. The relevance of the basis in harmony, variation, rhythm and form is drawn to connect the dots to today's popular music. The music comes alive as participants sing and clap out rhythms alongside a diverse lineup of music of Bach, Paganini, Piazzolla, Lauren Bernofsky, Coleridge Taylor Perkinson and more.
Coachings: Chamber music and orchestra sectional rehearsals with students part of school orchestra, and other musical organizations. (pictured; 2024 sectional with Yakima Music en Acción)
Conferences and Speaking Events
Listen and ask questions about artistic experiences from a fourth generation violinist, ranging from orchestral, solo, chamber music performing, teaching, recording, multidisciplinary collaboration, film directing/producing and more!
Collaborations with local arts organizations, performing arts centers and community centers
Pictured here: Premiere of electroacoustic works by young composers as part of the 2023-2024 Merriman-Ross Young Seattle Symphony Composers workshop at Octave 9. (Seattle, WA)
Past solo violin concert programs:
Sound Worlds (2024): featuring new music with pre-recorded electroacoustics (1 hour program; no intermission) Patrick Long: Shadow Steps (2021); Brannon Warn-Johnston: A Year with Cancer (2024) Aaron Levin: Videogame Vespers (2023); Hunter Prueger: Silent Moment (2022)
Music written by Violinists for Violinists: Featuring commentary with question and answer: JS. Bach: Partita #3; E. Ysaye: Sonata #4; F. Kreisler: Recitative and Scherzo; J. Montgomery: Rhapsody #1; INTERMISSION B. Warn-Johnston: A Year with Cancer (2024), H. Forrester (arr. Hadelich) Wild Fiddler’s Rag, N. Paganini: Caprice #24, N. Milstein: Paganiniana
Fiddling with Tradition: Featuring commentary and question and answer: C. T. Perkinson Blue/s Forms and Louisiana Blues Strut; D. Grantham: Black Eyed Suzy; L. Bernofsky: Sonata for Solo Violin, W. Marsalis: Fiddle Dance Suite INTERMISSION. B. Bartok: Sonata for Solo violin, J. Corigliano: STOMP, Mark O’Connor: Caprice #6, A. Igudeman: Funky String; H. Forrester arr. Hadelich: Wild Fiddler’s Rag
Violin Stories: (1 hour program; no intermission) Coming in 2025 Isang-Yun: Li-na im Garten (5 pieces based on Korean children’s stories.); Selections from the Complete Violin Works of Ezra Pound (1923-1933); Selections by ETA Hoffman; Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite #4; Strauss; Ein Heldenleben ‘The Hero's Companion"; Bach: Erbarme dich (from St. Matthew’s Passion); Beethoven: Solo from Missa Solemnis
Ilana and Orchestra
Pops: Featuring programs that combine “Pops programming” with longer form works that are inspired by other genres but written for classical violin and orchestra.
Pops works include:
Toru Takemitsu: arrangement of “Yesterday”
Fritz Kreisler: Three Viennese Dances
Henri Vieuxtemps’ Souvenir De Amerique
Ravel: Tzigane
Sarasate: Caprice Basque, Introduction and Tarantella, Carmen Fantasy
John Williams: Selections from Harry Potter, Star Wars, Tango from ‘Scent of a Woman’, Schindler’s List, Cinderella Liberty, The Adventures of Tin-Tin (2022)
Igor Frolov: Fantasy on themes from Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” (orchestrated by Ilana Zaks)
Alexander Rosenblatt: Carmen Fantasy (orchestrated by Ilana Zaks)
Fazil Say: Für Elise in the jazz style
William Bolcom: Cabaret Songs
Milhaud: Cinema Fantasie
Larger Scale works include:
Noah Bendix -Bagley Klezmer Violin Concerto: Fidl Fantasy
Fazil Say: Violin Concerto 1001 Nights in The Harem
Lou Harrison: Violin Concerto with percussion ensemble
David Baker: Violin Concerto with Jazz Band
Mark O’Connor: The Fiddle Concerto for violin and orchestra and The Improvised Violin Concerto for violin and orchestra
Mark O’Connor: American Seasons (Seasons of an American Life) for violin and orchestra
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