BIOGRAPHY
Jacob Cordover enjoys a vibrant and varied international career. He has appeared on stage throughout Australia, Canada, the US, Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, the Philippines and the United Kingdom as a soloist and in his chamber ensembles, Zoco Duo (with oboist Laura Karney) and the Australian Guitar Duo (with Rupert Boyd). His solo CD Stélé, recorded in 2004, is regularly featured on Australian radio and was hailed by Classical Guitar Magazine (UK) as “wonderfully sympathetic and highly accomplished... Cordover managing to get to the very soul of this striking and brilliant music.”
Mr. Cordover has appeared as soloist with the Orquestra Simfònica de Balears “Ciutat de Palma” conducted by Geoffrey Simon and the Orchestra dell’Accademia l’Ottocento conducted by Carlo Barone. His strong interest in the application of appropriate performance practice of 19th-Century music has lead to numerious performances of this repertoire on a variety of period guitars.
Aside from his formative studies at the Australian National University School of Music with renowned performer and pedagogue Timothy Kain, Jacob has undertaken post-graduate studies with Laura Young and Arnaldur Arnarson at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya and the Escola Luthier in Barcelona, Spain and with Carlo Barone at the Academia l’Ottocento in Paris, France. Masterclasses with Pavel Stiedl, Manuel Barrueco, Paul O’Dette, Ricardo Gallen and Sergio Assad (amongst others) have also been influential in his playing.
Complementing his performance schedule, Mr. Cordover has won prizes and awards in international competitions the world over, and has been the recipient of grants from the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Tasmania, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, the Australian National University Friends of the School of Music, artsACT, Swiss Global Artistic Foundation and the Australian Music Foundation.