Colin Jacobsen


Colin Jacobsen
Photo by Erin Baiano
COLIN JACOBSEN (violin) is “one of the most interesting figures on the classical music scene” (The Washington Post). An eclectic composer who draws on a range of influences, he was named one of the top 100 composers under 40 by NPR listeners. He is also active as an Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning soloist and has toured with the Silk Road Ensemble since its inception in 2000. For his work as a founding member of two game-changing, audience-expanding ensembles – the string quartet Brooklyn Rider and orchestra The Knights – Jacobsen was selected from among the nation’s top visual, performing, media, and literary artists to receive a prestigious and substantial United States Artists Fellowship. As a featured soloist and composer with the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, he performed at the Sydney Opera House in a memorable concert streamed by millions of viewers worldwide. His compositions and arrangements for dance and theater include "The Principles of Uncertainty," a collaboration between writer/illustrator Maira Kalman and Dance Heginbotham; and "More Or Less I Am," a theatrical production of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" by Compagnia de' Colombari.