Harry Jacobson studied bass at Oberlin Conservatory, at the  Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, France and The Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.  He has a doctorate from one of the pioneering schools injazz education, the University of North Texas where he also studied composition and conducting.  An accomplished classical music performer, he is principal bass of the Erie Chamber Orchestra, ErieOpera Theater and a member of the Erie Philharmonic.  He has also served as principal bass in the Norfolk Symphony and the KnoxvilleSymphony. He was a winner in a performance competition at the first symposium ofthe International Society of Bassists in Aspen and tied for first place in call for papers at a similar ISB event at UCLA, and presented a lecture-recital at the symposium as a result.  The document, onwhich the lecture-recital was based about the edition of a double bass Solo Quartet by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, was

published in several installments in the ISB journal, Bass World. As a jazz bassist, he has performed with the Jerry Gray Orchestra, Les Elgart’s big band, with jazz saxophonists Don Menza, Bruce Johnstone,Jerry Coker and pianists Rick DellaRatta, Don Rebic and Jan Laurens Hartong in Europe.   He leads and writes for his own group, Jazz Incorporated.  He recently produced and played on a CD of vocalistLydia Marks called Lovelight Shining, for which cowrote the title track.  He coordinates a jazz series during the summer for VACI at Chautauqua Institution and has taught on Chautauqua’s summer school faculty in the past. He also has performed on occasion with the Chautauqua Opera and  Chautauqua Symphony. He has been a member of the SUNY Fredonia faculty for thirty-one years and teaches music theory and jazz improvisation in addition to lessons in bass. He is area coordinator for the string faculty at the Fredonia school of Music.

Harry JacobsonPrincipal Double Bass

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