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As well as composing for and performing/recording with his own groups ReDiviDeR and Insufficient Funs, Matthew also co-leads Roamer, a quartet of Ireland's most internationally recognised improvisers, contemporary piano trio Origin Story, Swiss-based hyperlynx and performs regularly at home and abroad with Anna Mieke; UMBRA; Clang Sayne; Berri; Crash Ensemble; SlapBang; BigSpoon; and AERIE (DE) among others.
Matthew is co-director of Diatribe Records, Ireland's leading independent record label for new sounds and between 2011-2020 was the Irish producer of European exchange tour and event network Match&Fuse. He is also a full-time Jazz Lecturer in Dublin City University – specialising in drum skills, ensembles, free improvisation and music business.
He has received numerous grants from the Arts Council of Ireland including Travel and Training awards, Project awards, Bursary awards, Commissions awards, Recording awards and Touring awards has has received several Culture Ireland awards to present new Irish works all around the world.
He received a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2013 to spend a nine-month period in New York developing compositional and improvisational skills. He was also selected as Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown’s inaugural Musician-in-Residence in October 2015.
He received a BA in Jazz Performance at Newpark Music Centre, Dublin, an MA in Music Performance from Lucerne University, Switzerland and completed a practice-based PhD at Ulster University, exploring improvisational approaches to motivic compositions.
"One of the most dynamic forces in Irish jazz, on and off the stage" The Irish Times
"A European jazz artist of growing charisma" The Guardian
"Jacobson is in typically robust form, ever-responsive, ever-probing. He may well be the most in-demand
drummer in Ireland, and for good reason." All About Jazz
Matthew is co-director of Diatribe Records, Ireland's leading independent record label for new sounds and between 2011-2020 was the Irish producer of European exchange tour and event network Match&Fuse. He is also a full-time Jazz Lecturer in Dublin City University – specialising in drum skills, ensembles, free improvisation and music business.
He has received numerous grants from the Arts Council of Ireland including Travel and Training awards, Project awards, Bursary awards, Commissions awards, Recording awards and Touring awards has has received several Culture Ireland awards to present new Irish works all around the world.
He received a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2013 to spend a nine-month period in New York developing compositional and improvisational skills. He was also selected as Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown’s inaugural Musician-in-Residence in October 2015.
He received a BA in Jazz Performance at Newpark Music Centre, Dublin, an MA in Music Performance from Lucerne University, Switzerland and completed a practice-based PhD at Ulster University, exploring improvisational approaches to motivic compositions.
"One of the most dynamic forces in Irish jazz, on and off the stage" The Irish Times
"A European jazz artist of growing charisma" The Guardian
"Jacobson is in typically robust form, ever-responsive, ever-probing. He may well be the most in-demand
drummer in Ireland, and for good reason." All About Jazz
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