Tuseday 14 July 2026 at 11 am

Ingrid Jacoby, internationally acclaimed as both as a recording and performing artist, was awarded a Career Life Award by the National Society of Arts and Letters in the United States. She was inducted in the same ceremony as Shirley MacLaine and Jessye Norman.

Ms Jacoby, a “Steinway Artist,” is a member of The Steinway Hall of Fame, and she has recorded for its new Steinway Label in Hamburg, Germany.

Ms Jacoby has won numerous awards, including the Artists Presentation Award, the Steinway Hall Artists Prize, the Baldwin National Piano Competition, the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, and the gold prize at the Concert Artists Guild Award, in a field of over 1,300 entrants.  This resulted in a highly successful debut recital at Carnegie Hall.

Ms Jacoby was awarded a gold medal from the Monaco Dante Alighieri Society after her successful recital in Monte Carlo.

Ms Jacoby, who is a triple United States, United Kingdom, and German citizen, has performed at many London venues and with many orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the London Mozart Players.  She has worked with such eminent conductors as Sir Charles MacKerras, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Leonard Slatkin, Sir Neville Marriner, Jane Glover, Vasily Petrenko, Dimitri Sitkovetsky, Constantine Orbelian, Nicholas Collon, Walter Susskind, Jacek Kaspcyk, and Lord (Yehudi) Menuhin. Enthusiastic notices have followed concerts at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, Fairfield Hall, Cadogan Hall, and St John’s Smith Square.  Ms Jacoby has performed at Mansion House for the Lord Mayor, as well as in the presence of HRH The Prince and Princess of Wales at Apsley House.

 In addition to her performances at top music festivals, such as Aspen and Aldeburgh, Ms. Jacoby has also played Mozart concerti both at Italy’s most prestigious festival, the Ravello Festival, and at the Salzburg Music Festival in the Mozarteum.