Rodrigo Gonzalez-Jacob, Assistant Conductor

Rodrigo Gonzalez-Jacob’s musical education began with piano (Bachelor’s degree, Conservatorio Nacional de Musica), viola (Bachelor’s degree, Conservatorio de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires), and composition and conducting (Licenciatura degree, Universidad Nacional de las Artes).

After graduating in 2008 from the National University of Arts (Argentina) with the highest qualification, Gonzalez-Jacob was promoted to Conductor of the National University of Arts String Orchestra, becoming the youngest artist to ever hold this position.

Formerly known as the National Conservatory of Music, this School of Music was founded in 1924 and is one of the oldest and biggest music schools in Latin America. Later In 2015, Mtro. Gonzalez-Jacob was appointed the director of orchestras in the National University of Arts Music Academic Program and got tenured.

Rodrigo was a selected conductor in all of his major conducting courses in Argentina and Brazil (Santo Andre-BR, 2017; Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional Argentina, 2018; Teatro Colon, 2019; Curitiba-BR, 2020). He then served as a composer and arranger for musicians, music festivals, and media productions. Mr. Gonzalez-Jacob quickly became the most requested conductor of the new music generation to work at international festivals.

He served as the principal guest conductor of the National Symphonic Band from 2014 to 2018, a unique 80-piece music ensemble that included mostly blind musicians.

Since 2012, he has been the director of the AMIA youth orchestra program, committed to teaching orchestral music to socially vulnerable children. This program has proven to be highly successful in developing countries and is being replicated in multiple locations.

Beginning in the fall of 2022, will Rodrigo serve as Graduate Employee in the Orchestral Conducting track at University of Oregon School of Music and Dance under the tutelage of Dr. David Jacobs.