Bangor -- Violinist Tai Murray will be replacing Stefan Jackiw for the Bangor Symphony Orchestra's performance of Beethoven Violin Concerto at the Collins Center for the Arts, Sunday November 8th at 3pm.  Due to illness, Jackiw will be unable to perform.

Executive Director David Whitehill says the Symphony will certainly invite Jackiw back to Bangor in the future.  "It's unfortunate that Stefan is unable to perform this weekend, but we're very excited to have Tai Murray joining us," said Whitehill.  "She is a very talented young woman and we know the audience will love her."

A native of Chicago, Ms. Murray has been acclaimed as "superb" by The New York Times.  The twenty-six year old violinist  is a rising star of her generation increasingly in demand for both recitals and orchestral engagements.  She has performed on the stages of Berlin's Konzerthaus, Chicago's Orchestra Hall, Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, Shanghai's Concert Hall and New York's Carnegie Hall and has collaborated with a wide range of conductors and instrumentalists including Marin Alsop, Richard Goode, Alan Gilbert, Jaime Laredo, Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Mitsuko Uchida.  During the 2008/09 season, she returns to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and will make debuts with the Shanghai Symphony, London's BBC Symphony and the BBC Scottish Symphony orchestras, among others.

Ms. Murray studied with Yuval Yaron and Franco Gulli at Indiana University and Joel Smirnoff at The Juilliard School.  Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2004, she is currently a BBC New Generation Artist (2008-2010).  She performs on a violin dated 2007, made for her by distinguished and extraordinary luthier, Mario Miralles.

To purchase tickets for Beethoven Violin Concerto, visit the Bangor Symphony Orchestra's website at bangorsymphony.org or call the Collins Center for the Arts box office at 1-800-622-TIXX.