Annie Jacobs-Perkins, Cello
Annie Jacobs-Perkins will join Ensemble Modern as cellist in January 2026. Annie Jacobs-Perkins is 1st prize winner of the 2024 Buchet International Cello Competition (›Prix Buchet‹) and 2023 Pierre Fournier Award. Highlights of her 2025/26 season include a recital debut at the Sydney Opera House, concerto debut with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the release of her first solo album on the Champs Hill label and the release of a piano trio album with Trio Brontë on the Solo Musica label.
Annie Jacobs-Perkins was the Artist-in-Residence of the Austin Chamber Music Center in Texas from 2023-25 and she is the cellist of the Berlin-based piano trio, Trio Brontë. Trio Brontë is the 1st place winner of the 2025 Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition and the 2023 Ilmari Hannikainen International Piano Chamber Music Competition, as well as the 2nd prize winner of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition. Annie regularly participates in festivals such as Krzyżowa Music, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Yellow Barn, and Marlboro Music, where she has collaborated with artists such as Miriam Fried, Viviane Hagner, Nobuko Imai, Anthony Marwood, Donald Weilerstein, and members of the Brentano, Doric, Juilliard, Kuss, and Verona Quartets. Her performances have brought her to venues such as Carnegie Hall, Flagey Studios in Brussels, the Kennedy Center New York, Konzerthaus Berlin, Koninklijk Konzertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Wigmore Hall London. In addition, she has a deep commitment to working on the music of living composers, and has collaborated with those such as Thomas Adés, Timo Andres, Brett Dean, Konstantia Gourzi, Stratis Minakakis, Jessie Montgomery, Jeffrey Mumford, Dan Temkin, Paul Wiancko, and Jörg Widmann.
Annie Jacobs-Perkins holds an Artist Diploma from the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin and master‘s degrees from the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin and New England Conservatory in Boston, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California. Her primary teachers were Frans Helmerson, Troels Svane, Laurence Lesser, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Kathleen Murphy Kemp. Other important influences include Guy Fishman, David Geringas, Geoff Dyer, and Thomas Gustafson.
