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About Annie Jacobs-Perkins

Praised for “hypnotic lyricism, causing listeners to forget where they were for a moment,” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker), cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins is known for “eras[ing] all kinds of boundaries” (USC Thornton School of Music) with her music. 

Annie is the winner of the 2023 Pierre Fournier Award. In the coming seasons she will present a recital in London’s Wigmore Hall, record her debut album on the Champs Hill Label, and perform a concerto with the London Philharmonia Orchestra. In addition, Annie is 1st prize winner of the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs Emerging Soloist Competition, Father Merlet Award from the Pro Musicis Foundation, New England Conservatory Concerto Competition, and Hennings-Fischer Young Artist Competition. She is Artist-in-Residence of the EstOvest Festival Contemporary Cello Week in Turin, Italy and the Austin Chamber Music Center in Texas for the 2023-24 seasons. Jacobs-Perkins is also principal cellist of Joshua Weilerstein’s Phoenix Chamber Orchestra and cellist of Berlin-based Trio Brontë, winners of the 2023 Ilmari Hannikainen International Piano Chamber Music Competition. She regularly performs at venues such as the Library of Congress, Concertgebouw, Jordan Hall, Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus, Berliner Philharmonie, Ravinia Steans Institute, Yellow Barn Festival, Marlboro Music, and La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest. 

Annie is an Artist Diploma Student at the Barenboim Said Academy in Berlin. She was a 2018 Outstanding Graduate and Trustee Scholar of USC’s Thornton School of Music (BM), the recipient of the Laurence Lesser Presidential Scholarship from NEC (MM ‘20, GD ‘21), and of the Ottilie-Selbach-Redslob Stiftung at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik Berlin (MM ‘23). Annie’s primary teachers include Frans Helmerson, Troels Svane, Laurence Lesser, Ralph Kirshbaum, Kathleen Murphy Kemp, and Guy Fishman.

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