Jakob Bloch Jespersen

In 2013, he was awarded the Music Reviewers’ Artist Prize, in 2014, the Aksel Schiøtz Prize and in 2020, the Music Prize of the Danish Composers’ Society. Since 2023 he has been a lecturer of singing at the Danish National Academy of Music.
Jakob Bloch Jespersen made his stage debut at the Royal Danish Theatre in 2006 and has subsequently taken roles in, among others, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Verdi’s La Traviata and Falstaff, Nielsen’s Maskarade and Puccini’s Tosca and La Boheme — at stages such as the Royal Danish Theatre, The Norwegian National Opera, The New Opera Esbjerg and Opera Hedeland as well as a large number of roles in contemporary music theatre.
As a concert singer, Jakob Bloch Jespersen is in demand throughout Europe, with a repertoire ranging from the 17th to the 21st century. He has been focusing in particular on music from the German Baroque in collaboration with Concerto Copenhagen, Nieuwe
Philharmonie Utrecht and Australian Brandenburg Orchestra as well as on a modern and contemporary repertoire with ensembles such as Theatre of Voices, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin and London Sinfonietta.