Dutch violin virtuoso Lisa Jacobs is known for her passionate performances, interesting programs and communicative qualities on stage. At the age of 17, Lisa has made her successful debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Riccardo Chailly. She has played all around the world ever since, both as a soloist with renowned orchestras and conductors, and a recitalist and vivid chamber musician.
Lisa Jacobs collaborated with amongst others the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Bremer Philharmoniker, Wuppertal Sinfonieorchester, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and respected conductors such as Neeme Järvi, Riccardo Chailly, Mariss Jansons, Jurjen Hempel, Otto Tausk, Julia Jones, Massimo Quarta, Dirk Brossé and Carlos Miguel Prieto.
Miss Jacobs has made numerous international acclaimed recordings: Ysaye & Franck (2013, Challenge Records), Locatelli violin concertos (2016, Cobra Records), Haydn violin Concertos (2017, Cobra Records), Paganini Caprices (2018, Cobra Records) and Nielsen Violin Concerto (2019, Challenge Records).
Besides her concert career Lisa Jacobs greatly enjoys teaching and is a professor of violin at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, Belgium & at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (The Netherlands).
In 2015, she founded The String Soloists, a dynamic successful international string ensemble that distinguishes itself with flexibility and musical approach from mainstream chamber orchestras by playing without a conductor.
Miss Jacobs is a proud Pirastro Promotional Artist since 2017.
Next season includes soloistic appearances in the UK, Germany, South America, Belgium, Austria & The Netherlands, and recording projects with the Brussels Philharmonic, The String Soloists and various chamber music ensembles.
Lisa Jacobs has been appointed as artistic director of the International Music Festival Zeeland Klassiek.
Miss Jacobs is a top prize winner of various international competitions and graduated cum laude and with the highest distinction at the Amsterdam Conservatory as a pupil of Ilya Grubert. She continued her studies with Christoph Poppen at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich where she successfully finished her Konzertexam. This has been supported by the foundation Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. Further musical enrichment was achieved in several lessons with Thomas Brandis, Herman Krebbers, David Takeno, Nelli Shkollnikova, Julian Rachlin, Philip Graffin and Maxim Vengerov.