Jacobine van Laar was born in The Netherlands and started her musical career as a flautist. During her final year at the Sweelinck Conservatoire in Amsterdam she started her vocal studies with Wout Oosterkamp at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Jacobine continued her vocal studies at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as a postgraduate student with Laura Sarti. After this she continued to {...}

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Jacobine has a particular interest in early 20th century music and poetry. This led to the compilation of a number of special concerts programmed around themes like Lord Berners and Peter Warlock (The Last Eccentrics), Poetry and War (Music in Wartime), Famous Musical Marriages and Affairs (Women in Love) and The Dutch Connection. For special festive occasions Jacobine sings well loved operatic aria's (A Night at the Opera).

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An impression of Jacobine's repertoire:

Dvořák - Necitelná vodní mocí from "Rusalka"

Puccini - Vissi d'arte from "Tosca"

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