Jacobo Hernandez Enriquez
Jacobo Hernandez Enriquez
mundoclasico.com
“Jacobo Hernández belongs to that category of performers who not only play music, but are music themselves.”
die Presse
“… the wonderfully sensitive Jacobo Hernández Enríquez stepped in, no less full of presence.”
Jacobo Hernández Enríquez (he/him) is a violinist and multidisciplinary artist specialised in contemporary music and performance.
He lives in Vienna and his regular collaborations with ensembles in Europe such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, PHACE, Studio Dan, Black Page Orchestra, Ensemble Linea, der/gelbe/klang, NAMES, Vertixe Sonora and many others, make him one of the most ubiquitous and versatile performers in the new music scene.
Since 2022 he is member of the oenm (österreichische ensemble für neue music) in Salzburg where he also promotes collaborations with young composers like Kristine Tjøgersen, Krõõt-Kärt Kaev and Farzia Fallah.
Besides his activity as an ensemble musician, Jacobo developes his own shows as a soloist, mingling new repertoire with different disciplines and interests that include literature, theater, visual arts and fashion. With the generous grant of the Startstipendium for Musicians 2024 from the Bundesministerium in Austria, Jacobo will be able to go forward on his performative research and collaborate with some of the most interesting current artists and musicians, e.g. Genevieve Murphy, Peyee Chen, Georgia Koumará and Maya Bennardo.
Jacobo loves teaching young musicians and initiating them into the new music repertoire, having given courses in institutions like the Académie Voix Nouvelles in Royaumont (France) and the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias (Spain). Jacobo coaches not only musicians but composers as well, taking part in workshops and reading sessions in universities like Universität Mozarteum (Salzburg), University of Victoria (Canada), Vancouver Community College (Canada) and The Grieg Academy in Bergen (Norway).
With his Fidelius 6 string electric violin Jacobo experiments the huge range of possibilities that this instrument can offer and contributes to broaden its repertoire by comissioning new pieces, including premieres by Diego Jiménez Tamame, Krõõt-Kärt Kaev and Ying Wang.
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“Jacobo Hernández, one of the best violinists in Spain in this repertoire and a musician who prints, in addition to technical precision, sense and color to each effect, rigor in respecting the score and an expressiveness based on the very gestures of his body to direct each attack and resonance in the violin.”
— Scherzo
“Who would also take part in a world premiere by Annesley Black, the "Sea Floor Dawn Chorus" by Kristine Tjøgersen and a classic by Salvatore Sciarrino on the violin stand, which is also crucial for the coordination (of the Ensemble Recherche)? The solution was to divide the pieces between two excellent specialists: Stark took on Lachenmann, while the wonderfully sensitive Jacobo Hernández Enríquez stepped in for the rest, no less full of presence.”
— Die Presse
“Jacobo Hernández belongs to that category of performers who not only play music, but are music themselves. The intense gestures that we observe in his face and body denote this, with a physical experience of sound that anticipates, strengthens and projects the music in another way: just remember the end of Talea on his violin, with the construction of that melody stretched to infinity from an overpressure so steely and expressive, articulated by Jacobo Hernandez with his whole body, making visible the total fusion of instrumentalist and instrument. ”
— mundoclasico.com
