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Eric Jacobsen was born on 16 July, 1982 in Long Island, NY, is an Eric Jacobsen is American conductor and cellist American conductor and cellist. Discover Eric Jacobsen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 41 years old?

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Age 41 years old
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Born 16 July 1982
Birthday 16 July
Birthplace Long Island, NY
Nationality United States

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1982

Eric Jacobsen (born July 16, 1982) is an American conductor and cellist.

1992

Jacobsen has conducted The Knights for concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y, Central Park's Naumburg Bandshell, (Le) Poisson Rouge, the Dresden Musikfestpiele, Cologne Philharmonie, and the National Gallery of Dublin.

Jacobsen and The Knights have returned regularly to perform at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago.

Other festival appearances include Caramoor, Tanglewood, and the Dresden Musikfestspiele.

2004

Jacobsen and brother Colin founded string quartet Brooklyn Rider in 2004 along with violinist Johnny Gandelsman and violist Nicholas Cords.

The quartet has been called “one of the wonders of contemporary music” by the Los Angeles Times and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described the group as playing "with the energy of young rock stars jamming on their guitars, a Beethoven-goes-indie foray into making classical music accessible but also celebrating why it was good in the first place".

The quartet has recorded extensively and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, South by Southwest, and the San Francisco Jazz Festival, among many other prestigious venues and festivals.

A long-time member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, Jacobsen performs as both cellist and conductor with the group.

He has traveled around Asia, Europe, and North America with the ensemble, promoting cultural partnerships and educational opportunities with musicians from around the world.

Jacobsen's primary teachers included Harvey Shapiro and Joseph Elworthy.

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2014

Jacobsen led several concerts at the 2014 Ojai Music Festival, where The Knights were in residence, with pianist Jeremy Denk and singer Storm Large.

Jacobsen led the Camerata Bern in the European premiere of Mark O'Connor's American Seasons, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra with pipa virtuoso Wu Man, the Alabama Symphony, the Orlando Philharmonic, and the Baltimore Symphony, and has conducted the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma.

The 2014–15 season marked Jacobsen's first as Music Director of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony and Artistic Partner of the Northwest Sinfonietta.

2015

He is currently a member of The Knights, and the Silk Road Project, and is the Music Director of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, and when was an artistic partner of the Northwest Sinfonietta from 2015-2018

Born in Long Island, New York, Jacobsen is the son of Edmund Jacobsen, a violinist and former member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and Ivy Jacobsen, a noted flutist.

His brother is violinist Colin Jacobsen, with whom he co-founded Brooklyn Rider and The Knights.

The Jacobsen brothers were largely exposed to music through their parents, whose late night chamber music soirees in part influenced the brothers to study music and inspired them to believe in, and later promote, classical music as a party.

Jacobsen graduated from the Juilliard School.

Jacobsen was appointed the Music Director of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in 2015, engaging in a five-year appointment with the symphony orchestra.

Jacobsen was appointed the Music Director of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in 2021, making him the 12th Music Director in the VSO's 101-year history.

Jacobsen plays as a cellist in a number of ensembles.

2016

In 2016, he married folk singer Aoife O'Donovan; their daughter Ivy Jo was born in 2017.

He often takes up the baton for The Knights, with whom he has recorded an extensive collection of albums and toured in North America and Europe.

The Knights are an orchestral collective, flexible in size and repertory, whose mission is to transform the concert experience.

With a collaborative rehearsal process and the desire to promote musical discovery, The Knights have been called "one of Brooklyn's sterling cultural products...known far beyond the borough for their relaxed virtuosity and expansive repertory" by The New Yorker.

The ensemble has worked with some of the most popular names in music, from Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, Itzhak Perlman, Jan Vogler, and Gil Shaham to Bela Fleck and Joshua Redman.

Members include performers, composers, arrangers, improvisors, and singer-songwriters, and the group has many cultural influences across musical genres.