About

Dr. Lindsey Jacob is a composer, saxophonist, and educator with diverse interests and musical background. Her compositional interests are an eclectic blend of many traditions, including minimalism, experimentalism, improvisation, American folk music, popular music, and biomusic. Her compositions often juxtapose stylistically different musical material and address the act of communication, using the voice and body to convey ideas through vocalizations, dramatic gestures, and organic rhythms.

Her music has been presented at many festivals and conferences, including the North Carolina Music Educators Association Conference, SEAMUS National Conference, Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Music11 Festival in Switzerland, soundSCAPE festival in Italy, Byte Gallery International Exhibition, and the Louisiana State University Festival of Contemporary Music. Dr. Jacob has been a resident artist at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and her flute duo work, Clinkers, was the winner of the In Sterio Composition Competition. She has been commissioned by Mary Jo White and Christina Brier from the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP) Percussion Ensemble, the William & Mary Symphony Orchestra, Eta-Iota Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, Xavier University Symphonic Winds, and percussionist Daniel Heagney.

Coming from the classical saxophone tradition, Dr. Jacob has specific interests in performing works by living composers and works with nonstandard instrumentation. Some of her most recent projects focus on performing works for voice and saxophone and works for saxophone with electronics or electronic sounds. Performance highlights include a guest performance with flutist Mary Jo White at UNCW and a guest artist recital at UNCP, featuring a performance of Maslanka’s Song Book with percussionist Joseph Van Hassel. In previous performance experiences with a Cincinnati-based new music collective, Fringe Logic, and laptop ensembles CiCLOP and the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana, she combined her interests in technology, improvisation, and new music performance. 

Dr. Jacob is a leader in aiding the seamless transfer for students in Associate in Fine Arts in Music programs from schools in the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) to the University of North Carolina (UNC) System and North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU). To facilitate the transfer of music theory credits, Dr. Jacob revised the course descriptions for Music Theory I–IV and created the course descriptions for Aural Skills I–IV within the NCCCS Combine Course Library. As the Music-At-Large representative on the Executive Board of Directors for the NCCC Associate in Fine Arts Association, she presented and participated in panel discussions covering music bilateral articulation agreements, the Uniform Articulation Agreements for the AFA in Music, and curriculum improvement at the NCCC System Conference and NCCC Fine Arts Conference. Dr. Jacob also facilitated the creation of the Career & College Promise (CCP) for the AFA in Music Transfer Pathway for high-school-age students in North Carolina.

Previous teaching positions include full-time Music Instructor at Coastal Carolina Community College, graduate teaching positions at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Murray State University, and Music Composition Department Chair and Instructor at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) in Composition with a cognate in saxophone performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music (M.M.) in Composition from Louisiana State University, and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music (B.M.) in Education from Murray State University. Former composition teachers include Stephen David Beck, Dinos Constantinides, Michael Fiday, Mara Helmuth, David Schneider, and John Steffa; former saxophone teachers include James Bunte, Griffin Campbell, and Scott Erickson. She has received private composition instruction from Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Claude Baker, and Libby Larsen.