Jacob Shaw (musician)


Jacob Shaw is a classical cellist. He directs the non-profit organisation Scandinavian Cello School, and holds the "Gaspar Cassado Chair" Professor of Cello at Academia Marshall in Barcelona, Spain.

Early life

Born in London in 1988 into a family of professional musicians, he first studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey, before going to France to receive musical guidance from and entering into the class of Geneviève Teulières-Sommer at the École Normale de Musique de Paris.

Musical career

Shaw has given concerts across Europe, North America and Asia.
He is International Music Ambassador for Dulwich College International in Asia. He also works with outreach projects, playing in hospitals, prisons, youth centers and has established "Radical Classic" as a way to get in touch with a new generation of classical music lovers.
Shaw formed the Shaw String Trio with his father and sister, and in 2009, he founded with his family the Festival International de Musique de Chambre in south-west France in 2009.

Discography

Live in Festival International de Musique de Chambre en Charente
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From the Old World to the New