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Faculty Recital: Jeffrey Jacob

Presented by Moreau Center for the Arts at Little Theatre | Saint Mary's College

September 9, 2007

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The Saint Mary's College Music Department presents a faculty recital by Jeffrey Jacob, pianist entitled Variations. Themes and variations of works by composers W.A. Mozart, Franz Liszt, and Igor Stravinsky will be performed. The recital will also be the premiere of Variationi by Jeffrey Jacob which will be performed with members of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bridget Spore. Admission is free. Described by the Warsaw Music Journal as “unquestionably one of the greatest performers of 20th-century music,” and the New York Times as “an artist of intense concentration and conviction,” Jeffrey Jacob received a master of music from the Juilliard School and a doctorate from the Peabody Conservatory. Jacob counts as his principal teachers, Mieczyslaw Munz, Carlo, Zecchi, and Leon Fleisher. Since his debut with the London Philharmonic in Royal Festival Hall, he has appeared as a piano soloist with over 20 orchestras internationally including the Moscow, St. Petersburg, Seattle, Portland, Indianapolis, Charleston, Sao Paulo and Brazil National Symphonies, the Silesian, Moravian, North Czech, and Royal Queenstown Philharmonics. A noted proponent of contemporary music, he has performed the world premieres of works written for him by George Crumb, Vincent Persichetti, Gunther Schuller, Samuel Adler, Francis Routh, and many others. He has performed solo recitals in London, Dublin, Glasgow, Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Prague, Warsaw, Bucharest, Milan, Madrid, Helsinki, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Havana, Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto, Ottawa, and throughout the United States. Dr. Jacob has recorded over 80 works for solo piano and piano and orchestra including his critically acclaimed series of CDs of the complete piano music of Samuel Barber and George Crumb and major works of Bela Bartok. Fanfare Magazine recently devoted a feature article to his series of CDs for New Ariel Recordings entitled Contemporary American Eclectic Music for the Piano. Additionally, he has made radio recordings for Radio Warsaw, Radio Prague, and Brazil National Radio, as well as a series of recordings of American music for the BBC. Jacob has recently been commissioned by Naxos Records to make a three-CD set of the complete piano sonatas, sonatinas, and shorter works of the distinguished American composer, Vincent Persichetti, the chair of the Composition and Theory Department at the Juilliard School for 35 years. As a composer, Jacob has written three symphonies, three piano concertos, and numerous works for piano and chamber ensemble. Raymond Leppard and the Indianapolis Symphony premiered his Symphony: Winter Lightning. The Moscow and St. Petersburg Symphonies premiered respectively his Piano Concertos I and 2 with the composer as soloist. The Gregg Smith Singers premiered his Sleeping at Last for mixed chorus and solo cello. Dr. Jacob’s Persistence of Memory was premiered by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony at the 1999 College Music Society National Convention, and was selected by the Charles Ives Center for American Music for a performance by the Charleston Symphony at the 2002 Charleston Spoleto Festival. Other works have been premiered and recorded by the Orquesta de Baja California, the Chamber Orchestra of the Rhein, the North Czech Philharmonic, the Cavani Quartet and sopranos Mary Nessinger and Laurel Thomas. Two CDs of Dr. Jacob’s orchestral music have been released by Centaur Records and Vienna Modern Masters, and recordings of individual works appear on several labels including Albany, Opus One, and New Ariel. Currently Artist-in-Residence at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Ind., he recently received the Artist of the Year Award from the International New Music Consortium at New York University for his work as composer, pianist, and educator.