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 At the age of 17, Mr. Jacobsson made his recital debut at the Stockholm International Guitar Festival on very short notice, immediately followed by a tour of Estonia, along with his first recorded album containing music by Bach, Poulenc, Mertz, Lauro, Albéniz, Sor and Tárrega.
Since then, he has performed with principal members of Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and The Royal Danish Opera, and has been broadcast on BBC, TVE, WQXR, NPR and SRP2, the Swedish classical radio. He has also made recital and chamber music appearances in major Swedish venues as well as Alice Tully Hall, New York.
Born in Sweden in November 1984, Mattias Jacobsson began studying the guitar with Erik Möllerström and Bo Hansson. He continued his studies at the Malmö Academy of Music with Göran Söllscher and Gunnar Spjuth and at The Juilliard School with Ms. Sharon Isbin.
As the chosen guitarist for Televisión Española’s centennial celebration of Fransisco Tárrega, Mattias Jacobsson has emerged as one of the up-and-coming guitarists on the international stage today. The program “Es Música” will be broadcast bi-weekly throughout 2009.
Recent engagements include concerto appearances in The United States, live performances at WQXR Radio and performances with guitarist Sharon Isbin at the Aspen Music Festival where they performed music by Howard Shore from Martin Scorsese’s movie “The Departed”, which was later broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today to an audience of 1.1 million. In June 2008, Mr. Jacobsson was featured in the BBC documentary series “Imagine” about Oliver Sacks and in August he replaced legendary Angel Romero in both Concierto de Aranjuez and Fantasia para un Gentilhombre by Rodrigo. March 2009 marked Mattias Jacobsson’s debut with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Jacobsson plays exclusively on guitars by Thomas Fredholm.
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