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ARTIST NEWS

Colin Jacobsen and Eric Jacobsen – of Brooklyn Rider and The Knights – Win Prestigious $50,000 United States Artists Fellowship
12.03.12
Brooklyn Rider , The Knights
21C Media Group
Since its founding seven years ago by the national grant-making and advocacy organization United States Artists (USA), the USA Fellows program has put $17.5 million directly into the hands of American artists. The 2012 USA Fellows range from 31 to 81 years of age and represent the most innovative and influential artists in their fields. Reflecting the diversity of artistic practice in America, they embrace cutting-edge thinkers and traditional practitioners from the fields of architecture and design, crafts and traditional arts, dance, literature, media, music, theater arts, and visual arts. The Jacobsens’ fellow 2012 honorees comprise such leading lights as novelist Annie Proulx and contemporary dance legend Trisha Brown, while past recipients number among them visual artist Kara Walker; designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte; performing artist Meredith Monk; jazz composer Jason Moran; ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied; choreographer Bill T. Jones; and writer Sapphire.
“When we received the phone call from USA Artists with the good news, we were in the middle of doing what we do much of the time: planning for the future,” remarked violinist Colin Jacobsen. “Receiving the Fellowship gives us renewed courage to move forward with our passion to make the string quartet (Brooklyn Rider) and orchestral forms (The Knights) relevant to our world.”
Violinist Colin has been named “one of the most interesting figures on the classical music scene” (Washington Post), while cellist and conductor Eric was hailed by the New York Times as “an interpretive dynamo.” Together, they founded The Knights to foster the intimacy and camaraderie of chamber music on the orchestral stage; as the New Yorker reports, “few ensembles are as adept at mixing old music with new as the dynamic young orchestra.” Similarly, their string quartet Brooklyn Rider – offering true new-music chops, genre-bending innovation, and risk-taking moxie – all while equally at home in the classics – has been justly described as “one of the wonders of contemporary music” (Los Angeles Times). Upcoming highlights for The Knights involve a U.S. tour with pipa virtuoso Wu Man and the release of an all-Beethoven disc for Sony Classical, while this season has seen Brooklyn Rider present five world premieres – including new commissions from John Zorn, Shara Worden, Gabriel Kahane, and Colin Jacobsen himself.
More information about the Jacobsens and their ensembles is available at the web sites listed below.
www.brooklynrider.com
facebook.com/BklynRider
twitter.com/Brooklyn_Rider
theknightsnyc.com
www.facebook.com/pages/The-Knights
twitter.com/TheKnightsNYC