Christopher Jacobson is appointed director of music and organist for the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, Texas. He moves to Texas from Durham, North Carolina, where he has served as chapel organist for Duke Chapel, Duke University, since 2014. There he founded the Duke Evensong Singers and the Duke Chapel Organ Scholar program and served as principal organist for chapel services and concerts. As associate organist and choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, South Carolina, he helped build a children’s chorister program and led the cathedral choirs. As assistant organist and assistant director of music at Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., he assisted in training and accompanying the choirs of men and boys and men and girls, directed services for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, and was one of the organists for the state funeral of President Gerald Ford.
Jacobson has performed the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach across the United States, presented recitals on four continents, and won multiple awards for organ performance. He records with the European record label Pentatone, and he was nominated for three Grammy awards for his work with conductor Brian A. Schmidt and the South Dakota Chorale’s world-premiere recording of Marcel Tyberg’s two choral Masses.
Jacobson earned his Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, studying with John Ferguson, and a Master of Music degree in organ performance and a sacred music diploma from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, studying with David Higgs and William Porter. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. He has led national and international choir tours, and he is an experienced teacher at the collegiate level.
For information:
christopher-jacobson.com
incarnation.org.
Other recent appointments:
Jared Johnson to San Francisco, California
