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Ed Jacobs

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“Huge talent with polymath abilities and catholic tastes."
– THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

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Ed Jacobs

“...Jacobs convincingly reflects an elegant rhythmic design
and cascading timbral gestures, imparting to the work
a strong sense of kinetic energy.”
– Andrew Rindfleisch, Notes, September 1997

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Ed Jacobs

“...Jacobs convincingly reflects an elegant rhythmic design
and cascading timbral gestures, imparting to the work
a strong sense of kinetic energy.”
– Andrew Rindfleisch, Notes, September 1997

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ABOUT

Ed Jacobs began playing violin at age 8, but abandoned that at age 11—upon hearing a friend’s jazz quartet—in favor of the saxophone. Undergraduate work at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in jazz performance, and then in composition (Salvatore Macchia, Robert Stern) was followed by graduate study at the University of California, Berkeley in composition (Andrew Imbrie, Olly Wilson, Gerard Grisey); and a doctorate at Columbia University (Chou Wen-Chung, Mario Davidovsky, Marty Boykan, George Edwards).

Jacobs’ music is written for forces ranging from soloists to chamber ensembles, orchestra, concerto, and choral. In 2001 Jacobs began to work with electronic media, and has since written pieces for fixed media with clarinet (A Function of Memory, Beauty Shop), with cello (al momento), piano (echoes, shadows), and for dancers (dis/Connect) and, most recently with voice (The Line Between).

His music is published by C. F. Peters Corp., NY, ACA, and APNM. Recordings by Chris Grymes and Xak Bjerken of Aural History (clarinet & piano), and A Function of Memory are available on Open G Records (A Function of Memory); Passed Time (brass quintet) is heard on Meridian Arts Ensemble’s Seven Kings, Innova Records (No. 943); Release is appears on Ablaze Records Orchestra Masters series;

and The Line Between (for soprano and fixed media, with poetry of E. E. Cummings), al momento, Palladium (song on poetry of James Brasfield), and Addressing Wonder (vla, vc, pno) are forthcoming on Open G Records in 2019. More

"Jacobs music is “intriguingly morphing."

– Allan Kozinn, NYTimes, June 6, 2008

MashIt
"[Passed Time] becomes [an] intricate marvel that makes us wonder how the composer can dream it up."

– Barry Kilpatrick, American Record Guide, Jan/Feb, 2017

FabuFit
"In At Recess, We Play Jacobs convincingly reflects an elegant rhythmic design and cascading timbral gestures, imparting to the work a strong sense of kinetic energy."

– Andrew Rindfleisch, Notes, September 1997

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