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  In the fall of 2003, cellist, Eric Jacobsen appeared with Renee Fleming at the opening of Zankel Hall, at Carnegie Hall and on the Late Show with David Letterman. Mr. Jacobsen is a member of the string quartet known as Brooklyn Rider, with violinists Jonathan Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen and violist Nicholas Cords. He regularly performs at Bargemusic, often playing with Steven Beck, a pianist that Mr. Jacobsen has worked with for 10 years. He is the curator and artistic director of the 92nd Street Y's Makor Centor for Classical Cafe. Mr. Jacobsen has appeared as soloist with the Chamber Soloists of Austin in Texas , the Riverside Orchestra, the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, the Greenwich Village Orchestra, the Lake George Chamber Orchestra, the Woodstock Festival Orchestra, and the New York Repertory Orchestra. He has been heard on NPR programs such as ‘Sound Check’ and ‘Performance Today’, where he performed in four live chamber music concerts last November. Mr. Jacobsen enjoys performing with Dutch violinist Vera Beths and studying with her husband, the great baroque cellist Anner Bylsma. Mr. Jacobsen is a member of Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project. Last year he participated in residencies in Japan's National Museums in Nara and Fukuoka and travels with the ensemble have taken him to Baku, Azerbaijan, Switzerland and Malaysia to perform for the Aga Khan. During this fall, Mr. Jacobsen has participated in residencies at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art in NY. Mr. Jacobsen has also collaborated at The Tenri Cultural Institute and The Angel Orensanz Foundation in performances with musicians from Armenia and Iran; Gevorg Dabaghyan on the Duduk, and kemancheh master, Kayhan Kalhor. Mr. Jacobsen is also the cellist in the Mark O'Connor String Quartet performing original works by the great American fiddler. Mr. Jacobsen organizes the chamber ensemble, The Knights, which performs as a chamber orchestra and smaller ensembles. The Knights recently presented a series of concerts at New York 's Bargemusic, in collaboration with flutist Paula Robison. Working with Ms. Robison, Mr. Jacobsen kicked off a Sol Lewitt exhibit at the Gardner Museum in Boston, performing the Mozart D major flute quartet in a room designed around that piece. As a conductor, Mr. Jacobsen most recently led an all Beethoven program at the Tilles Center in Long Island and at the Washington Irving School in Manhattan. In the spring of 2007, Mr. Jacobsen lead The Knights in Beethoven’s 7th Symphony at the annual Beethoven Festival at the Planting Fields Arboretum. In conjunction with a celebration for the city of NY, he conducted a concert at the Brooklyn Lyceum working with singer-songwriter Christina Courtin. Mr. Jacobsen has studied at The School for Strings, and The Juilliard School, where he received his Bachelor of Music, under the guidance of Harvey Shapiro and David Soyer. He has spent summers, in Salzburg, Austria, Villars, Swizerland with Ardyth Alton, in Engelberg, Switzerland and Florence, Italy with Harvey Shapiro, and chamber music at the Lucerne Festival. Recent events this season included a tour to Ireland with The Knights and a debut performance of the Dvorak Cello Concerto. Upcoming events include a tour to India with the Silk Road Ensemble and a DVD release of the first Bach Cello Suite with animation by Kevork Mourad. Mr. Jacobsen can be heard on recordings with distinguished artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Bono, and Mark O'Connor. Mr. Jacobsen plays a Bernardus Calcanius cello crafted in 1744. For Upcoming events, please visit the concert schedule page of this site.
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