Irina Jacobson
Artistic Teacher of Piano (minor subject) at the Department of Piano, Member of the Advisory Council for Gender Mainstreaming
Subject/Instrument:
Piano
Fürstenhaus – Main Building
- 1957: Born in Weimar
- 1965 onwards: Had piano lessons at the Music School of Eisenach under Elisabeth König
- 1969: Acceptance to the Belvedere Special School for Music and piano lessons under Fritz Bantz
- 1975–1980: Piano diploma at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar under Fritz Bantz and Professor Gunda Koehler Scharlach
- 1979: Tutorial assistant for piano methods
- 1980: Appointed to the post of artistic assistant at the University of Music Weimar
- Extensive concert schedule
- 1986: Appointed to the position of ‘university teacher’
- 1991 to present: Artistic employee at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar
- 1992–2011: Involved as a piano teacher at the Music Gymnasium ‘Schloss Belvedere’
- 1993–1996: Artistic director of the ‘Women's Music Days’ at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar, and simultaneously chairlady of the regional association of the ‘Women in Music’ international working group
- Extensive research on the topic of female composers
- 1998: Guest lecture on ‘Female Composers of Eastern Europe’ at the University of Gainesville, Florida, USA
- 2001/02: Series of public lectures on female composers at the Frauenzentrum Weimar (Women’s Centre Weimar)
- 2009: Publication of the book ‘Klavierspielen mit der Seele’ (‘Playing the Piano with the Soul’), written in 1999
