Clarinet / Bass Clarinet
Eric Jacobs has been the Seattle Symphony’s Clarinet and Bass Clarinet since 2015. Prior to joining the Symphony, Jacobs was based in Los Angeles, pursuing an active career as a chamber musician, orchestral musician and new music advocate. He has played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the symphonies of Pasadena, Richmond, Santa Barbara and the Quad Cities. As a chamber musician, he has played with musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Danish Radio Symphony, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and many others in the United States, Canada, Denmark and Germany.
A passionate supporter of new music, he has premiered many new works as a core member of the What's Next? Ensemble, DC8 (Da Camera Society), HEAR NOW Music Festival, Jacaranda: Music at the Edge and the Long Beach Opera. He has also performed with Ensemble Modern, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble and at Carnegie Hall under the guidance of John Adams and David Robertson in two concerts of 20th and 21st century American music. In the summer of 2015, he was a guest clarinetist with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
He is forever indebted to his many great teachers over the years: Nancy Genovese, Yehuda Gilad, David Howard, Kenneth Lee, Thomas LeGrand, Charles West and Michael Webster.
