Sonia
Jacobsen has received numerous awards and prizes for her music, namely
from IAJE/ASCAP, American Music Center, American Composers Forum,
American Scandinavian Society, Danish Foreign Ministry/Cultural
Affairs, and from L'Orchestre National de Jazz, France.
Her education includes a musicology degree from Lyon University
(France), a “Gold Medal” in jazz saxophone and composition from
Chambéry Conservatory (France), and a BFA in jazz from The New
School University’s Jazz and Contemporary Music Program (New York). Her
teachers included a.o. Richie Beirach, Kenny Werner, Joe Lovano, Dave
Liebman, George Coleman, Vincent Herring, Robert Sadin, Maria Schneider
and Reggie Workman. Furthermore she completed acoustic studies at
L'Institut d'Acoustique et d'Electroacoustique, (Grenoble Conservatory,
France.)
Her music has been performed by Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra (Germany),
Philharmonia Virtuosi (NY), German-American Chamber Orchestra featuring
Joe Lovano (NY), the New Juilliard Ensemble (NY), L’Orchestre National
de Jazz (France), and the Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra (LA). She
has been musical director of a number of ensembles ranging from string
quartet to big band to large orchestra (her most recent endeavor, the
New York Symphonic Jazz Orchestra of which she is founder and musical
director.)
She strives for a synthesis between the classical and jazz worlds by
bridging them with her experience in world music and contemporary
rhythms.
She is currently teaching at the New School University’s Jazz
Department (NY).
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