About

Jacob Fowler holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY and the Shepherd School of Music in Houston, TX. He has received fellowships from the Tanglewood Music Center (2008-09), where he worked with top-ranked conductors and composers from all over the world, and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (2011), where he served as principal cellist under Christoph Eschenbach performing in Istanbul, Spain, Austria, and throughout Germany. Mr. Fowler has been invited on several international tours including the Houston Symphony’s tour of the U.K. in 2010. As a regular member of the Manhattan Symphonie, he has performed on many political and cultural tours of China, performing in almost every major city in the country, and performed in the orchestra’s Carnegie Hall debut in 2013, honoring relations between the U.S. and Japan. Mr. Fowler joined the Virginia Symphony in 2010 and has since been a featured soloist in a collaboration with Todd Rosenlieb Dance, performs regularly with the Williamsburg Symphonia and the Norfolk Chamber Consort, has become an active coach and advocate for the Hampton Roads Chamber Players, and is the director of the OBX Chamber Music Series.