Ingrid Jacoby – Russian Grand Piano by Jakob Becker, c.1886-87

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Ingrid Jacoby is internationally acclaimed both as a recording and performing artist. Ms Jacoby has won numerous awards, including the Artists Presentation Award, the Steinway Hall Artists Prize, the Baldwin National Piano Competition, the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, and the gold prize at the Concert Artists Guild Award, in a field of over 1,300 entrants. This resulted in a highly successful debut recital at Carnegie Hall.

Since moving to England, Ms Jacoby, who is now a triple United States, United Kingdom and German citizen, has performed at many London venues and with many orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the London Mozart Players. She has worked with such eminent conductors as Sir Charles MacKerras, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Leonard Slatkin, Sir Neville Marriner, Jane Glover, Vasily Petrenko, Dimitri Sitkovetsky, Constantine Orbelian, Walter Susskind, Jacek Kaspcyk, and Lord (Yehudi) Menuhin. Enthusiastic notices have followed concerts at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, Fairfield Hall, and St John’s Smith Square. Ms Jacoby has performed at Mansion House for the Lord Mayor, as well as in the presence of HRH The Prince and Princess of Wales at Apsley House.

After working with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Ms Jacoby is the only pianist since Alfred Brendel to be invited by Sir Neville to record all 27 Mozart piano concerti with him. Sir Neville honoured Ms Jacoby by personally writing his public letter of support. The first three CDs of this significant project were broadcast internationally and received the highest accolades. This series came to an end with the death of Sir Neville in 2016.

In recent years, Ms Jacoby completed a 6-city concert tour of China; played with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra at the United States embassy in Moscow; gave a recital for the Bavarian Radio in Munich; and played Chopin’s second piano concerto with the Royal Liverpool Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko. She performed with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under Nicholas Collins, with the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Eiji Oue, with the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, with both the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra and the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra; and with the chamber orchestra of La Scala, Milan (the Cameristi della Scala) under Wilson Hermanto.

Ms Jacoby comes from a family with deep musical roots. Her direct, lineal ancestor was Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772 – 1806), the pianist and composer to whom Beethoven dedicated his third piano concerto. The prince’s uncle, King Frederick the Great, composed the theme which Bach used in the sublime “A Musical Offering.”

Ms Jacoby’s great-great uncle, P S (“Benno”) Landeker (1860 – 1930), was one of the principal founders of the reorganized Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1882 with his business partner, Hermann Wolff. Mr Landeker was a co-owner of the original Berlin Philharmonic Hall which was destroyed during World War II. There is a charming story in the memoirs of the great cellist, Gregor Piatigorsky, describing how he was locked in that hall after a concert by mistake and passed the night sleeping in the Landeker Loge.