Holiday Pops in the Heartland
- Date December 17th, 2022 Time 7:30pm Venue ISU Center for the Performing Arts - Normal
Celebrate the holidays with festive music and holiday songs. Holiday Pops in the Heartland truly is a community affair as the ISO is joined by the Bloomington-Normal Youth Symphony, Illinois Symphony Youth Orchestras, Springfield Choral Society, and the Springfield Youth Performance Group. Great fun for the entire family, young and old!
Jacobsen Woollen, ISO Assistant Conductor
Tickets: $66 / $44 / $22
Students (Age 12-24 with ID): $12
Students (11 & Under): $6
Springfield
Friday, December 16, 2022 @ 7:30 PM
UIS Performing Arts Center, Springfield, IL
Special Guests: Illinois Symphony Youth Orchestras, Springfield Choral Society, Springfield Youth Performance Group
Bloomington-Normal
Saturday, December 17, 2022 @ 7:30 PM
ISU Center for the Performing Arts, Normal, IL
Special Guests: Bloomington-Normal Youth Symphony, Springfield Choral Society, and the debut of the winner of the Celebrity Conductor Challenge. For details on the challenge go to ilsymphony.org/celebrityconductor.
Support Provided By:
The Landmark Automotive Group, Debra & Daniel Brownstone, M.D., Memorial Health, US Bank
Bloomington-Normal Venue ISU Center for the Performing Arts - Normal
400 W. Beaufort St, Normal, IL 61761
400 W. Beaufort St, Normal, IL 61761
Ticket Office Information: The ISU Center for the Performing Arts (CPA) Ticket Office is located on the main level in the lobby of the ISU Center for the Performing Arts.
Phone: (309) 438-2535 or online
Box Office Hours:
Monday through Friday: Academic Year 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Summer 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday: Closed
Performance Days: Opens Two Hours Prior to Performance
Box Office Parking: Two parking spaces located next to the CPA loading dock are reserved for patrons for business with the box office. These parking spaces are located off the corner of Beaufort and School Streets. A second option is to park in the University Street Parking Garage, an hourly pay lot. During non-performance times, there is no public parking in the School Street Parking Garage.
Parking: Free parking is available starting at space 250 in the Schoool Street parking garage located across from the ISU Center for the Performing Arts. Parking is not available on the ground level or top floor but is available everywhere between these two levels.
School Street Garage Address: 400 S School St, Normal, IL 61761
There is premium parking for donors who give $1,000 or above. Those parking spots are located on the second level and will be coned off.
Featured:
Jacobsen Woollen Conductor - ISO Assistant Conductor and ISYO Conductor
Jacobsen Woollen is a conductor, cellist, and tenor residing in Springfield, Illinois, where he serves as Assistant Conductor of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Director of the Illinois Symphony Youth Orchestra, Director of the Springfield Choral Society, and Director of the UIS Orchestra.
An Indiana native, Jacobsen returns to the Midwest after spending six years in Vienna, Austria, where he completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in orchestral conducting under the tutelage of Prof. Mark Stringer at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, conducted professional ensembles including the Polska Filharmonia Baltycka and Ensemble Ultreia, served as assistant conductor of the Vienna Opera Festival, and led the Schlosschor Hadersfeld. During his Vienna years, Jacobsen was frequently called back to the Midwest to work at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, where he served as assistant conductor and led several workshops for new works, including Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones.
Jacobsen also maintains an active career as a tenor: he recently produced and performed a musical-theatrical concert evening, Lovelace Weave, which explores the father-daughter pair of Lord Byron and Ada Lovelace. As a member of the Grammy-winning Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Jacobsen has participated in opera productions at Theater an der Wien, as well as concerts in Europe’s most renowned venues, including Vienna’s Musikverein and Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie.
Prior to his European sojourn, Jacobsen completed a Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Michigan under the guidance of Kenneth Kiesler. During this time, he was active in the Ann Arbor musical community as well, serving as founder and director of Paradigm Shift Chamber Orchestra, music director of the Ann Arbor Camerata, and assistant conductor of the Michigan Life Sciences Orchestra.
As a cellist, Jacobsen was a student of Susan Moses in the Indiana University String Academy and later completed a Bachelor’s Degree with Richard Aaron at the University of Michigan. He has appeared as a soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, Musical Arts Youth Orchestra, and Voces Novae Chamber Choir. As a chamber musician, he has had the pleasure of collaborating with Joshua Bell, Jaime Laredo, Soovin Kim, and many others. From 2013-16, Jacobsen was cellist and artistic curator with the new-music sextet Latitude 49, and he continues to serve on their Board of Directors.