BIO

Jacobo Christensen

The Spanish-Danish violinist, conductor and composer from Valencia, Spain, held his first violin at the age of two. His mother introduced him to the world of music, while he received his first classes from Jesús Debón, Catalina Roig, Vicente Balaguer and Mikhail Spivak. Concurrently he studied acting with Alejandro Carballo. These teachers' knowledge and affection, along with their rigorous standards forged the fascination with music that still motivates Jacobo every single day.

He was awarded First Prize in the Geneva International Music Competition Crescendo for young musicians, the Concurso Internacional de Violin Pozuelo de Alarcon in Madrid, the Prix du Cap Ferret Music Open in France, and the Premio de Interpretation de la Sociedad de Conciertos de Alicante, among others. With the Albéniz Quartet he received from Her Majesty Queen Sofía recognition as a member of the most outstanding quartet of Madrid's Reina Sofía Higher School of Music.

Jacobo Christensen studied at the Reina Sofía Higher School of Music in Madrid under Yuri Volguin and Zakhar Bron, at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona under Salvatore Accardo. He has honed his skills as a violinist with maestros like Kolja Blacher (Kronberg Academy), Boris Belkin (Chigiana Academy), Gil Shaham, Ivry Gitlis, Viktoria Mullova, Vadim Repin, Marco Rizzi and Boris Kushnir, among others. With his love of chamber music, he found mentors in violinist Heime Müller and the Hungarian pianists Márta Gulyás and Imre Rohmann. As a conductor, he has received guidance from Cristóbal Soler, John Carewe and Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

Jacobo Christensen has performed in Europe, the United States and China in halls like the Musikverein in Vienna; the Teatro Real, Auditorio Nacional and Teatro Monumental in Madrid; the Palau de la Música and Palau de les Arts in Valencia; the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in Budapest; and the National Theatre in Bratislava. He has played under the batons of Andrés Orozco-Estrada, András Schiff, John Carewe, Péter Csaba, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Juanjo Mena, Cristóbal Soler and Ivan Monighetti, among others.

He founded Nostre Mare Camerata in 2020. Since the group's debut at Valencia's Olympia Theatre in July, 2021, Jacobo has conducted the orchestra in prestigious festivals, presenting more than eight different projects.

In 2025 Jacobo created his own record label, Audis Phonograph, in collaboration with Aoide, arte y cultura. In December, 2025, Nostrum Mare Camerata brought out its first CD, Sólo NMC.

Jacobo Christensen is, further, the artistic director of the CHULILLA: EL CAUCE DEL ARTE festival.

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