Christensen, Jacobo
No. 3
Country: Spain
Date of birth: 25 August, 1999
Jacobo Christensen studies since 2018 at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid with professor Zakhar Bron and at the same time he receives lessons from Salvatore Accardo at the Stauffer Foundation in Cremona. He took masterclasses from Gil Shaham, Viktoria Mullova, Boris Kuschnir, Mihaela Martin, Sergey Ostrovsky, Boris Belkin, Ivry Gitlis, Agustín León Ara, Vasko Vassilev, Ingolf Turban, Miriam Fried, Giovanni Guzzo, Silvia Marcovici, Christoph Poppen, Heime Müller and Márta Gulyás. He won first prize at the Concours International de Jeunes Musiciens Crescendo in Geneva (Switzerland, 2013), at the International Competition Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid, 2013), at the Concert Society Interpretation Award (Alicante, 2019); and the Prix du Cap Ferret Music Open (France, 2023), among others. He has played in many countries at piano recitals and with some of the most important violin concertos under the batons of Cristóbal Soler, Plácido Domingo, Gustavo Dudamel, Péter Eötvös and András Schiff. In 2021 he founded his own orchestra, Nostrum Mare Camerata. As a member of the Albéniz Quartet, he received in June 2021 from Her Majesty Queen Sofía the mention of the most outstanding string quartet at the university.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Bartók: 1. rapszódia // Rhapsody No. 1, BB 94a
J. S. Bach: 2. (a-moll) hegedűszonáta // Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003 – 1. Grave, 2. Fuga
Semi-final
Bartók: 1. hegedű-zongora szonáta // Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, BB 84
Veljko Nenadić: Two Movements – Impromptu and Perpetuum mobile for Violin and Piano
Final
Brahms: D-dúr hegedűverseny // Violin Concerto in D major, op.77