Jacob Warren is from Emerald Isle, North Carolina. He is a junior, double majoring in saxophone performance and arts administration, and a Minerva scholar at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has been named the first place winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs State and National competitions, as well as the Euterpe Music Club Scholarship competition. Recently, Jacob has won first place in the North Carolina Music Teachers National Association solo competition in the woodwinds division, as well as the UNCG concerto competition. Additionally, Jacob works for the Eastern Music Festival as Media Content Developer. His primary teacher is Dr. Steven Stusek.

The UNCG Symphony Orchestra is a highly select ensemble of approximately ninety performers majoring in music. Performers include undergraduates through masters and doctoral candidates in music performance and music education. Membership in the organization is highly competitive, and all students are placed by audition. Members of the Symphony have achieved numerous individual honors including solo competition awards on regional and national levels, music scholarships, undergraduate teaching fellowships, graduate assistantships and fellowships, and membership in honors ensembles.

The UNCG Symphony Orchestra periodically tours the state and region, and has recently performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and at the Stevens Center in Winston-Salem, NC. A recent review in the Classical Voice of North Carolina described the Orchestra’s performance as, “dramatic and incisive,” and “beautifully done.”

In addition to the performances of standard orchestral literature, the Symphony Orchestra collaborates annually with the UNCG choirs to present a major choral/orchestral work. Faculty, as well as winners of the annual Student Artist Competition, are often featured as soloists. The Symphony combines with the School of Music Opera Theatre and the UNCG School of Theatre to perform a fully staged opera production each spring semester. String performers who are not majoring in music are especially encouraged to participate.