BIOGRAPHY

Jacob Fitzgerald is a composer based in London, passionate about music education and music for children. His music has been described as “remarkable, touching and intimate one moment, then hilarious the next” (Neil Cox). Recent and ongoing projects include commissions for the London International Community School, a piece for 200 children to ‘play a forest’ in Derbyshire, and in 2021 Jacob secured funding from Arts Council England to support his miniature ballet, notes on loving, much ado about nothing, working with students from the Royal National College for the Blind.

Highlights in 2023 included murmuration – Jacob’s recorder quartet’s third BBC Radio 3 broadcast as part of their Words and Music series – and the inclusion of invention for solo piano in Trinity College London’s grade eight syllabus. Also a typesetter and arranger, Jacob regularly works with the Hallé Orchestra, and more recently the Gävle Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, on scores for outreach events, tours and concerts.

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Jacob has also had his music commissioned and performed by ensembles and performers including the Hermes Experiment, Gesualdo Six, House of Bedlam, the Brodsky, Ruisi, Kyan and Piatti string quartets, and cellist Martina Schucan, in venues ranging from St John’s Smith Square to the Timber Eco-Festival.

Jacob has been the recipient of, amongst others, the Douglas Steele Award, the National Centre for Early Music Composers Award and has been shortlisted for The Clements Prize. Jacob studied with Huw Watkins, Isabel Mundy (Zürich Hochschule für Kunste) and Jeremy Pike (Chetham's School of Music).

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For a full list of recent performances, please click here.