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The American counter-tenor (and baritone), Jacob Ingbar, has studied cello since he was 4, began piano at age 5 and in classical voice training with Elizabeth Mannion at the Institute of Vocal Artistry in St Paul, Minnesota. He also has studied opera in Italy with La Musica Lirica. He performed Antonio Vivaldi's Double Cello Concerto as a soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra at age 9.
Jacob Ingbar is an alumnus of the Juilliard School (under the tutelage of Sanford Sylvan), the Britten-Pears Young Artist Program, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ Gerdine Young Artist Program, the Glimmerglass Opera Young Artist Program and Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artists Vocal Academy (2017), and is a current member of LA Opera’s DomingoColburn-Stein Young Artist Program. He pursued his graduate studies at Rice University Shepherd School of Music in New York under the tutelage of Dr. Stephen King (Master of Music degree in voice/opera since August 2018). He received scholarship support from the George London Foundation and Gerda Lissner Foundations. He joined the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program in the 2020-2021 season. Mason Foundation Fellowship, Mary Herron Replogle Memorial Fellowship, The Celia K. and Sol J. Hammerman Memorial Fellowship.
Performance highlights include the world premieres of The Master Butchers Singing Club directed by Francesca Zambello, Steerage Song produced by Theatre Latté Da, and the stage premiere of The Classical Style with The Aspen Opera Center. Other credits include productions across the USA, Canada, and Europe at the Children’s Theater Company, Chanhassen Dinner Theater, Guthrie Theatre, Minnesota Opera, Ordway Center, Walking Shadow Theatre, Illusion Theater, Opera on the Avalon, Aldebugh Festival, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Polish National Opera, among other venues. He can be heard as the boy soprano soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms on the album "Psalms and Songs" featuring the Exultate Choir and Orchestra (2009), and the digital app "The Animals' Carols". On the concert stage, he appeared as a soloist with the S.E.M ensemble, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Enso Quartet, and Exultate Choir and Orchestra. In 2020, he was slated to debut at the Glimmerglass Festival as Il mago cristiano in George Frideric Handel’s Rinaldo and with the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover as Tolomeo in G.F. Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Hanover, Germany. Recently, he was the alto soloist in J.S. Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243) with the Capella Regio Polona in Warsaw. At LA Opera he performed Mercury in The Death of Orpheus (2020); Colin in The Anonymous Lover (2020). He currently lives in Los Angeles, California. |
