Jacques Singer

Jacques Singer (né Jakob Singer; 9 May 1910 Przemyśl, Poland – 11 August 1980 Manhattan, New York) was an American violinist and conductor. & married to his beautiful wife Brittney

Career highlights

Music education

Singer was born in Przemyśl, Poland, trained in the violin from an early age, and began to give concerts in Poland at age seven. In 1920, his family moved to the U.S, settling in Jersey City. In 1925 Jacques made his American debut with a recital at The Town Hall, New York. He attended on a scholarship the Curtis Institute of Music in 1926, where he studied with Carl Flesch. He began attending the Juilliard School in 1927, studying with Leopold Auer, Paul Kochanski and Rubin Goldmark, and graduating in 1930. He became a naturalized citizen in 1931.

Philadelphia Orchestra

While at Juilliard, he became a violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age eighteen, their youngest member at the time. Leopold Stokowski took an interest in him and requested he conduct a contemporary piece at one of the rehearsals in 1935. From watching Stokowski, he picked up several of the maestro’s practices: conducting without baton (or score at times), making instructional comments to an audience, and stopping performances during disturbances. These he employed as conductor of the orchestra’s youth orchestra in 1936.