Olivia Vilmart-Jacobson, violin

Olivia was born in Geneva. As her mother is a pianist, she was soon attracted to music and began studying the violin at the age of four. In 1994, she entered the Academy Tibor Varga in Sion, where she studied with Professor Varga during five years.

In 2000, Olivia was admitted at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique of Geneva by professor Margarita Karafilova-Piguet, where she obtained the Master of Pedagogy with honors and the Prize Anne et Marte Torcapel for the best recital from violin, viola, cello and bass classes. She continued her studies with Raphaël Oleg at the Hochschule für Musik Basel and graduated in 2008 cum laude Konzertdiplom. She continued her advanced studies with Francesco De Angelis at the Lausanne Conservatory HEMU Vaud-Valais-Fribourg and obtained in June 2012 her Master of Arts specialised soloist.

Olivia followed different Masterclasses and has thus had the opportunity to improve herself with Tibor Varga, Francesco De Angelis, Victor Pikaysen, Mihaela Martin, Michael Vaiman, Mi-Kyung Lee, Latica Honda Rosenberg, Valery Gradow and Igor Oistrakh. At the Forum Valais 2009, Olivia participated in the creation of the string quartets and trios by Swiss composers Christophe Fellay, Andreas Zurbriggen and Javier Hagen. Olivia has had the great opportunity to play chamber music alongside musicians such as Francesco De Angelis, Ulrich Eichenauer, Susan Rybicki-Varga, Marcio Carneiro, Xavier Pignat, Krzysztof Jablonski and Paul Coker. Olivia Jacobson forms a violin-piano duo with the pianist Ivana Vukosavljev. They performed in Switzerland and in Serbia at the Serbian Radio Television and at the Guarnerius Hall in Belgrade.

Olivia has performed as a soloist with the Torun Philharmonic, Szczecin Philharmonic and the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland, the Lviv Virtuosi Orchestra in Ukraine and with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne in Switzerland.

Olivia currently teaches violin at the Ecole de Musique de Pully (EMP) and at the Conservatoire de Musique de Terre-Sainte et Environs (CMTSE).