Press
Critical Acclaim
Immense artistry. . . he is a pianist of enormous sensitivity and intelligence
The Washington Post
Jacob plays the score with dazzling assurance tossing off the extended techniques as if they were so many diminished seventh arpeggios
Fanfare
Rarely do I enjoy an album from the first note to the last, but that’s exactly what I found myself doing with Jeffrey Jacob’s REAWAKENING
Classic Music Review
Jeffrey Jacob is unquestionably one of the greatest living performers of 20th-century music
Warsaw Music Journal
A stunning, musically fulfilling recital by one of the world’s finest exponents of contemporary piano music
The Canberra Times, Australia
Beyond any doubt, Jeffrey Jacob is a musical genius
Arnhem, Netherlands
Intense concentration and conviction
The New York Times
Jeffrey Jacob is an American pianist with a formidable technique, and enviable memory for new works, and a real artist’s imagination in the interpretive field
Music and Musicians, London
Jacob’s virtuoso technique and exquisite sense of line were memorably impressive
The Guardian, London
Jacob’s often voluptuous settings are powerfully evocative. Melodies are woven into a composition’s fabric with immense care and emerge so subtly from a given setting’s lush design that one’s attention remains fixed on the whole
Textura
The lyrical writing of Jacob’s music particularly stands out with almost magical piano ideas floating through the texture
Cinemusical
Rarely do I enjoy an album from the first note to the last, but that’s exactly what I found myself doing with Jeffrey Jacob’s REAWAKENING
Classic Music Review
Jacob’s recording for Opus One is unquestionably one of the finest recent releases of contemporary music
The New Records
To hear my music so beautifully interpreted by Jeffrey Jacob makes the writing of it somehow seem worthwhile
George Crumb
I’ve been listening to Jacob’s album, REAWAKENING, pretty much nonstop for a couple of weeks, and every time I play it I find something new to love about it. This is one album you’ll be playing for years to come
Classical Music Review
The pianism of Jeffrey Jacob is at once clean and intense, dazzling and delicate, and forever governed by intellect. From the standpoint of his programming—he specializes in the music of his own time and land—he is one of today’s most important artists
Ned Rorem
One of the outstanding pianists of his generation
Irish Times, Dublin
There is a strong sense that Jacob composes as one might write a diary, with an almost compulsive need to express oneself. In this sense, Jacob is a brave artist, as he speaks to us directly, almost nakedly, from the heart