Jacob read music at the University of Liverpool, before winning a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied composition with Julian Philips and Laurence Crane and conducting with Tim Redmond. He graduated with a merit and the Mary Ryan Award for Composition. Jacob's music has been performed at Wigmore Hall, Milton Court Concert Hall, the Courtauld Gallery, London Contemporary Dance School, the Bloomsbury Theatre, and he has received commissions from University College London, British Youth Music Theatre, Richmond Concert Society, Wildchild Productions and Oldham Theatre Workshop. His work with University College London received the Higher Education Fund from Research England, and he has been an invited speaker at the UCL Festival of Culture, The University of Leeds music colloquium and the University of York History and Theatre series.
Aftermath - for two mezzo sopranos & sinfonietta
Text by Edward Einhorn
Recorded by the Sundial Chamber Orchestra at Bell Studios, London
Mezzo-sopranos - Siân Griffiths & Rosalie Warner
DUST - for violin, cello, electric guitar, bass clarinet, & percussion
Performed by Plus-Minus ensemble as part of a masters composition workshop
A Clockwork Orange - for six voices & electronics
Performed by EXAUDI, James Weeks conductor -
A Clockwork Orange written by Anthony Burgess © The International Anthony Burgess Foundation 1962
SHIFT - for three dancers, viola, harp, & bass clarinet
Performed at London Contemporary Dance School
Viola - Agnieszka Żyniewicz
Harp - Lise Vandermissen
Bass Clarinet - Rachel Marie Coe
Shell. Husk. Frame. - for string quartet
Workshopped at the Guildhall School
Savage - for violin & piano
Performed by Ruth Heney and Hunter Mabery
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