Jakub Jankowski has been awarded Helpmann Academy’s 2017 Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Award for best arts graduate, valued at $10,000. A graduate of the Elder Conservatorium of Music at the University of Adelaide, he is an emerging cellist, composer and conductor. The Award acknowledges the achievements of a distinguished graduate from South Australia’s tertiary education institutions, and is awarded to a nominated individual who has shown excellence and commitment to working in their creative field.

Jakub Jankowski.

Jankowski graduated from the Elder Conservatorium of Music in 2016 with Honours in Music (Composition). His recent achievements includes the world premiere of his String Octet by the Goldner String Quartet and Elias Quartet at this year’s Musica Viva Festival in April and the world premiere of his cello sonata Aspects of Return by German-French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and Serbian pianist Aleksandar Madžar on tour for Musica Viva in September. His music has also been played at the Adelaide International Cello Festival, the Sacrarium International Composers’ Forum in Lviv, Ukraine, and the London International Mime Festival. He has already received commissions by some of Australia’s top performing organisations for the next three years.

“As an emerging...