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Interview with Sebastian Jacot

Jacot, Sebastian

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Interviewee: Jacot, Sebastian

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Playing Time: 00:12:13

Catalogue Number: DAK041-07

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Winner of the Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD 2015, the Carl Nielsen International Competition 2014 and the Kobe International Flute Competition 2013, Mr. Jacot is regularly invited to perform with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Mozart and the Munchener Kammerorchester.

Born in Geneva, Sebastian Jacot entered the Haute ecole de musique de Geneve at age fifteen, studying in the class of Professor Jacques Zoon and obtaining his Soloist Diploma with Distinction in 2010. Mr. Jacot is currently the 1st Principal Flute at the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig and has previously held positions as Assistant Principal Flutist at the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal Flutist at the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival-Saito Kinen in Japan and Solo Flutist of the Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva, Switzerland.