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Victor Jacob
Named “Révélation Chef d’Orchestre” (Revelation Conductor) at the 2023 Victoires de la Musique awards and awarded a Special Mention at the 2019 Besançon International Conducting Competition, French conductor Victor Jacob is regularly invited to conduct European and international orchestras. These include the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Royal Opera Orchestra of Versailles, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse and Orchestre de Picardie. Other notable invitations in the symphonic repertoire include the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Belgian National Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National Avignon-Provence and Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.
Show moreRegularly sharing the stage with internationally renowned soloists such as Khatia Buniatishvili, Michael Spyres, Gaëlle Arquez, Julie Fuchs, Lucienne Renaudin Vary and Edgar Moreau, he has also been invited to conduct the Simón Bolívar Orchestra in Venezuela and the Moscow State Philharmonia (МГСО).
Principal Conductor of the Paris Opera Youth Orchestra and a former singer with the Maîtrise de Radio France, Victor Jacob has a particular sensitivity to the voice and is equally at home in the operatic repertoire, honing his skills under the guidance of Antonio Pappano, Nathalie Stutzmann and Paolo Arrivabeni. In opera, he has conducted the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, as well as performances at the opera houses of Rouen, Bordeaux and Montpellier.
From 2019 to 2022, he served as Assistant Conductor to Gergely Madaras at the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, and subsequently to Alexandre Bloch at the Orchestre National de Lille.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, he studied under Neil Thomson, Alain Altinoglu, Sian Edwards and Colin Metters, and received guidance from Paavo and Kristjan Järvi, Leonid Grin, Marin Alsop, David Zinman, Lawrence Foster and Bernard Haitink.
