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Joshua R. Jacobson (born January X, 1948) is a full Professor of Music at Northeastern University, where he has been the director of the Northeastern University Choral Society since 1973. He is the Artistic Director of the Zamir Chorale of Boston, a notable choral ensemble specializing in Hebrew music, which he founded in 1969.

holds a Bachelors degree in Music from Harvard College, a Masters in Choral Conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Cincinnati (1981).

Dr. Jacobson served nine years as Music Department Chairman and six years as the Bernard Stotsky Professor of Jewish Cultural Studies at Northeastern. He is Adjunct Professor of Jewish Music at Hebrew College.

He has been a guest conductor for a number of ensembles, including the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Bulgarian National Symphony and Chorus, the New England Conservatory Orchestra and the Boston Lyric Opera Company.

He has also written articles on various aspects of choral music, and compositions and arrangements which have been published and performed throughout the world. In 1989 he spent four weeks in Yugoslavia as a "Distinguished Professor" under the auspices of the Fulbright program. In 1994 he was awarded the Benjamin Shevach Award for Distinguished Achievement in Jewish Educational Leadership from Hebrew College. Prof. Jacobson is past President of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. He is the conductor and host of the PBS film, "Zamir: Jewish Music Returns to Poland."

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Volume 21, Number 1, Fall 2002

E-ISSN: 1534-5165 Print ISSN: 0882-8539

DOI: 10.1353/sho.2002.0106

Jacobson, Joshua. Music in Lubavicher Life Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies - Volume 21, Number 1, Fall 2002, pp. 160-162

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Chanting-the-Hebrew-Bible/Joshua-R-Jacobson/e/9780827608160