Paul Jacobs has been appointed to the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York beginning with the autumn 2003 semester. The 26-year-old American organist is the 2003 winner of the Arthur W. Foote Award of the Harvard Musical Association, the first organist ever to be so honored. He holds a graduate degree and performance diploma from Yale University and did his undergraduate work at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Paul Jacobs has been called “One of the most supremely gifted young organists of his generation” by the Chicago Tribune, and “the next great American organist” by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Mr. Jacobs has been a featured artist on Public Radio International’s “Pipedreams,” Bavarian Radio, Brazilian Arts Television, and Minnesota Public Radio. He has taken first prizes in several competitions, including the National Society of Arts and Letters Organ Competition in Washington, DC in 1996, the Violette Cassel Organ Competition in Pennsylvania and the Albert Schweitzer National Organ Competition in Connecticut in 1998, and the Fort Wayne National Organ Competition in Indiana in 1999. Paul Jacobs is represented by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists.
