Anthony Jacobs, Composer

Biography

Born in 2000 in Arcachon (France), Anthony Jacobs is a Belgian composer based in Brussels.

Exposed to classical music from an early age, it was after discovering Beethoven's symphonies and Vivaldi's concertos that he developed a precocious passion for musical creation and began learning music through the saxophone and piano.

Always driven by the desire to create, at the age of fourteen he was accepted into the composition class at the Bordeaux Conservatory, where he studied the great works of the 1925 generation and serialism.

Admitted in 2022 to study composition at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in the classes of Daniel Capelletti, Martin Loridan, and Lukas Ligeti, he broke away from the aesthetics he had studied during his years in Bordeaux.

Admitted in 2022 to study composition at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in the classes of Daniel Capelletti, Martin Loridan, and Lukas Ligeti, he moved away from the aesthetics he had studied during his years in Bordeaux, discovering North American minimalists, 20th-century Russian music, and post-1950 Polish composers.

Today, he is developing an approach in which these different aesthetics meet and intersect.

Catalogue

Solo pieces

Microcosme for flute
Statisme en Ut for viola

Chamber Music

Donbass for violin, tenor saxophone, vibraphone and piano
Trio in memoriam Boris Tchaikovsky for clarinet, cello and piano
Cold for saxophone quartet (coming soon)
Sounds of Dramas to Come for violin, cello, flute, clarinet, piano and audio (coming soon)

Orchestral Music