Colin Jacobsen and Friends, a Benefit Performance for BYMP

Name: Colin Jacobsen and Friends, a Benefit Performance for BYMP
Start: 2024-12-06T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-06T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Soapbox Gallery

Schedule

Fri Dec 06 2024 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Soapbox Gallery | Brooklyn, NY

Colin Jacobsen and Friends is a benefit performance to help support the work of Brooklyn Youth Music Project.
About this Event

Colin Jacobsen and Friends is a special holiday fundraiser concert to help support Brooklyn Youth Music Project (BYMP). Taking place at Brooklyn's Soapbox Gallery (636 Dean Street), a limited number of in-person tickets are available. In-person attendance includes the performance, as well as a meet and greet reception with the artists. Live stream tickets are also available and include day of performance live stream.

Thanks to a generous sponsorship of this event by BYMP's Board of Directors, and a very generous matching gift from the Double-R Foundaton, your ticket purchase will be matched dollar for dollar.

Join us in celebrating and supporting the talented young musicians of the Brooklyn Youth Music Project and the extraordinary artistry of our guest artists!

The world class roster includes:
Colin Jacobsen, violin
Nicholas Cords, viola
Eric Jacobsen, cello
Shuhui (Sophia) Zhou, piano

Program to include:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata in E Minor for Piano and Violin, K. 304
I. Allegro
II. Tempo Di Menuetto

Sophia Zhou, piano
Colin Jacobsen, violin

Colin Jacobsen...La Puerta for Violin and Cello
I.Lydia's Reflection
II.La Puerta

Colin Jacobsen, violin
Eric Jacobsen, cello

Zoltan Kodaly Movement 1 from Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7I.
Allegro serioso, non troppo

Colin Jacobsen, violin
Eric Jacobsen, cello

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major for Violin, Viola and Piano K. 364
I. Allegro maestoso
II. Andante
III. Presto

Colin Jacobsen, violin
NIcholas Cords, viola
Sophia Zhou, piano

Brooklyn Youth Music Project (BYMP) is a community-based non-profit youth orchestra and jazz ensemble program. We are dedicated to teaching and inspiring musicians of diverse backgrounds, ages 5 to 18, to learn and perform challenging orchestral, chamber music and jazz ensemble repertoire. In addition to our school-year long program which offers up to three levels of orchestra and two levels of jazz, BYMP also offers a two-week intensive summer music camp in July.

BYMP building character and community through musical excellence!

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Thanks to a very generous matching gift from the Double-R Foundation, all donations for this event, and through the end of December, will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $20,000.

As a small non-profit arts organization offering high quality musical training and ensemble performance opportunities for kids of diverse backgrounds, ages 5-18, we look forward to continuing and enhancing our programs post-pandemic.

It is BYMP's goal to raise $40,000 by December 31st. Whether $5, $50 or $500, every dollar makes a difference.

Music is a much needed in the world, now more than ever. Thank you for your generosity and support!

Special thanks to our artists...
COLIN JACOBSEN
ERIC JACOBSEN
NICHOLAS CORDS
SHUHUI (SOPHIA) ZHOU
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Violinist and composer Colin Jacobsen is “one of the most interesting figures on the classical music scene” (Washington Post). Since the early 2000s, Jacobsen has forged an intriguing path in the cultural landscape of our time, collaborating with an astonishingly wide range of artists across diverse traditions and disciplines while constantly looking for new ways to connect with audiences. For his work as a founding member of two innovative and influential ensembles – the string quartet Brooklyn Rider and orchestra The Knights – Jacobsen was selected from among the nation’s top visual, performing, media, and literary artists to receive a prestigious and substantial United States Artists Fellowship. He is also active as an Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning soloist and has toured with Silkroad, since its founding by cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 2000 at Tanglewood.

As a composer, he has written pieces for an eclectic mix of artists including pianist Emanuel Ax, singers Anne-Sofie Von Otter and Jamie Barton, banjo player Bela Fleck, mandolinist Avi Avital, clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, choreographers John Heginbotham and Brian Brooks, theater group Compagnia de' Colombari and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Starting in the 2022/23 season, Jacobsen assumed the position of Artistic Director of Santa Fe Pro Musica, an organization with which he has had a fruitful long-term association as a guest soloist and leader.

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Already well-established as one of classical music’s most exciting and innovative young conductors, Eric Jacobsen combines fresh interpretations of the traditional canon with cutting-edge collaborations across musical genres. Hailed by the New York Times as “an interpretive dynamo,” Eric, as both a conductor and a cellist, has built a reputation for engaging audiences with innovative and collaborative programming.

Eric is also artistic director and co-founder of The Knights, the uniquely adventurous NYC-based chamber orchestra. The ensemble, founded with his brother, violinist Colin Jacobsen, grew out of late-night music
reading parties with friends, good food and drink, and conversation. Current endeavors include a multi-year Rhapsody project as well as a residency at Carnegie Hall. Eric also serves as the Music Director at both the Virginia Symphony and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, where he continues to pioneer both orchestra’s programming and community engagement in new and exciting ways.

Eric’s musical life started from a very young age surrounded by a musical family, where he discovered his love of pulling a bow across a string as a cellist. He and his brother founded the string quartet Brooklyn Rider and also performed regularly with Yo-Yo Ma as a member of Silk Road, touring around the world. This collaborative spirit and sense of music is something that Eric strives to bring to every concert and project.

Eric brings joy, storytelling, and a touch of humor to what he describes as “musical conversations” that delight audiences around the world, including those who do not traditionally attend classical music concerts. Jacobsen is married to Grammy-Winner singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan and together they have a daughter.

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For more than two decades, omnivorous violist Nicholas Cords has been on the front line of a unique constellation of projects as performer, educator, and cultural advocate, with a signature passion for the cross-section between the long tradition of classical music and the wide range of music being created today.

Nicholas served for twenty years as violist of the Silkroad Ensemble, a musical collective founded by Yo-Yo Ma in 2000 with the belief that cross-cultural collaboration leads to a more hopeful world. This mission was poignantly explored by the recent Oscar-nominated documentary by Morgan Neville, The Music Of Strangers, which makes a case for why culture matters. In addition, Nicholas served from 2017-2020 as a Co-Artistic Director for Silkroad, and previously as Silkroad’s Programming Chair. He appears on all of the Silkroad Ensemble’s albums including Sing Me Home (Sony Music), which received a 2017 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.

Another key aspect of Nicholas’ musical life is as founding member of Brooklyn Rider, an intrepid group which NPR credits with "recreating the 300-year-old form of the string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.” Highly committed to collaborative ventures, the group has worked with Irish fiddler Martin Hayes, jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman, ballerina Wendy Whelan, Persian kemancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor, Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, Mexican singer Magos Herrera, and banjoist Béla Fleck, to name a few. Their most recent recording Healing Modes was lauded by the New York Times and received a 2021 Grammy Nomination.

His acclaimed 2020 solo recording Touch Harmonious (In a Circle Records) is a reflection on the arc of tradition spanning from the baroque to today, featuring multiple premieres. A dedicated teacher, Nicholas currently serves on the viola and chamber music faculty of New England Conservatory.

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A native of Shanghai, classical pianist Shuhui (Sophia) Zhou has been performing as a soloist and chamber musician internationally in the USA, Europe and China. She is the winner of the V BPA International Piano Award of Barcelona, engaged for 5 solo recitals across Spain. Her recent concert appearances include the Royal Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Carnegie Weill Concert Hall, National Sawdust (New York City), Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.), Shanghai Concert Hall, National Library of Catalonia (Barcelona), etc. She has collaborated with members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera House, HK Philharmonic, etc.

Ms. Zhou holds a Master of Music degree from Mannes College of Music in New York, studying with Thomas Sauer. She also holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and Bachelor of Arts in German Literature from Oberlin College. Ms. Zhou was invited as a post-graduate piano fellow by the Bard College Conservatory, working with the Graduate Vocal Arts Program under the guidance of Dawn Upshaw and Stephanie Blythe and offering Secondary Piano lessons to college undergraduate students.

As one of the most dynamic and versatile young musicians of her generation, Sophia recorded and premiered music by renowned composers such as Andrew Norman (Pulitzer- Prize and Grammy-Award nominee) , Benjamin Broening (recipient of Guggenheim Award), Alexander Goehr and John Harbison.

Her recent projects include multimedia concert project “Bach VS The Climate Crisis” in collaboration with renowned environmental photographer J Henry Fair, an interdisciplinary performance in the Nam June Paik retrospectives show in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, chamber music concerts with members of Carnegie Ensemble Connect, song recitals with American tenor Daniel McGrew (2021 YCA Winner) in Merkin Hall and Morgan Library, New York City, Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington D.C, Harvard Music Associations in Boston and concert tours with ATL Piano Trio in Florence, Livorno, as well as appearances at the Mexican Republican Senate Hall to be broadcasted on national television for 2 consecutive weeks.

Ms. Zhou is the founder and director of Chamber Music at The Stissing Center, NY. She has created and produced critically-acclaimed concerts for five consecutive seasons, bringing world-class music making into the community.

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