Photo: Mark Manne

Annie Jacobs-Perkins

Praised for anything from “hypnotic lyricism, causing listeners to forget where they were for a moment” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) to “delightfully pluck[ing] and slapp[ing] her cello like a rockabilly upright bassist,” cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins is 1st prize winner of the 2023 Pierre Fournier Award and 2024 Buchet International Cello Competition. Highlights of her 2025–2026 season include a recital debut at the Sydney Opera House, concerto debut with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the release of her first solo album on the Champs Hill label, the release of a piano trio album with Trio Brontë on the Solo Musica label, and her first season as a member of Ensemble Modern.

Annie was the Artist-in-Residence of the Austin Chamber Music Center in Texas from 2023–2025 and she is the cellist of the Berlin-based piano trio, Trio Brontë. A prize winner at numerous international competitions, most recently Trio Brontë is the 1st place winner of the 2025 Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition in Austria. Annie regularly participates in festivals such as Krzyżowa Music, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Yellow Barn, and Marlboro Music, where she has collaborated with artists such as Jonathan Biss, Miriam Fried, Nobuko Imai, Donald Weilerstein, and members of the Brentano, Doric, Juilliard, and Kuss Quartets. Her performances have brought her to venues such as Carnegie Hall, Flagey Studios, the Kennedy Center, Konzerthaus Berlin, het Konzertgebouw, and Wigmore Hall. In addition, she has a deep commitment to working on the music of living composers, and has collaborated with those such as Thomas Adés, Timo Andres, Brett Dean, Konstantia Gourzi, Stratis Minakakis, Jessie Montgomery, Jeffrey Mumford, Dan Temkin, Paul Wiancko, and Jörg Widmann.

Annie’s primary teachers are Frans Helmerson, Troels Svane, Laurence Lesser, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Kathleen Murphy Kemp.