Jacobo Christensen
Nationality: Spain
Age: 23
Stage: Semifinal
Repertoire:
STAGE ONE - SELECTION: Shostakovich Violin Concerto, 1st mov.; Chausson, Poème; Brahms, Violin Sonata 3, 1st mov.
STAGE TWO- SEMIFINAL: J. S. Bach SONATA Nº 2 IN A MINOR, Grave, Fuga; J. S. Bach SONATA Nº 1 IN G MINOR, Adagio
Jacobo Christensen studies at the Reina Sofía Higher School of Music in Madrid with professor Zakhar Bron and at the same time he receives lessons from Salvatore Accardo at the Stauffer Foundation in Cremona. He has gone on to take masterclasses from Sergei Ostrovski, Boris Belkin (Accademia Chigiana, Siena), Ivry Gitlis, Agustín León Ara, Vasko Vassilev, Ingolf Turban, Miriam Fried, Giovanni Guzzo, Silvia Marcovici, Christoph Poppen, Heime Müller and Marta Gulyas.
First Prize Concours International de Jeunnes Musicienes Crescendo in Geneva (Switzerland), 2013; First Prize International Competition Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid, 2013); First Prize Solsona AIMS Festival (Lleida, 2013); First Prize Contest of Young Interpreters of Canet (Castellón, 2014); Alicante Concert Society Interpretation Award (Alicante, 2019); Winner of the II Contest of Young Soloists of the Young Orchestra of the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencia 2019).
Jacobo has played in the USA, China, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Portugal, piano recitals and some of the most important violin concertos: Mendelssohn, Bruch, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Sibelius, under the batons of Maestros Cristóbal Soler, John Carewe, Ivan Monighetti, Zubin Mehta, Plácido Domingo, Gustavo Dudamel, Pablo Heras Casado, Andrés Salado, Péter Eötvös, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Ignazio Terrasi, Oliver Díaz, Zakhar Bron and András Schiff, among others.
