About
Jacobien Rozemond studied the violin with Davina van Wely and Ilya Grubert. In 1995 she graduated with a cum laude from the Rotterdam Conservatory and won the Esso prize for the best final exam of the year at this Hogeschool. In the same year his finalist was in the Vriendenkrans of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. She continued her studies with David Takeno in London. In 1997 she was invited to the Tanglewood Music Festival in the United States where she worked as a concertmaster with conductor Seji Ozawa.
Jacobien Rozemond played as a violinist in a wide repertoire from Beethoven and Brahms to Schnittke and McCabe in France, Italy, the United States and Argentina, among others.
From 1997 to 2004 Jacobien Rozemond was a permanent member of Combattimento Consort Amsterdam. Since 2003 she has been the leader of the second violins at Amsterdam Sinfonietta. She has also performed as a soloist and concertmaster with both ensembles.
As a chamber musician she worked in the Amsterdam Bridge Ensemble for many years with cellist Doris Hochscheid and pianist Frans van Ruth with whom she made acclaimed CDs in the press with music by Hendrik Andriessen and René Samson. From 2003 to 2007 she was a member of the Ruysdael Quartet with which she won the 2006 Kersjes Prize. Since 2005 she has been teaching conservatory students every year at the Peter the Great Festival in Groningen where she can also be heard as a soloist and chamber musician. In 2015 she founded the Hermitage Quartet with violinist Floor Lecoultre, viola player Francien Schatborn and cellist William Mcleish.
Since 2018 she has been a duo with accordionist Renée Bekkers.
In this duo Jacobien combines her violin playing with singing. She took singing lessons with Valérie Guillorit, Robert van der Vinne and Klaartje van Veldhoven. Last season she performed frequently in the theater performance "Vivaldi Code Rood" in a double role as a violin soloist and singer. In her theatrical solo program on the stories of Thousand and One Nights, she interwoven her violin playing with the use of her voice in a suite written by René Samson. This music also appeared on the chamber music CD she made with the Amsterdam Bridge Ensemble (awarded a 10 in Luister).