Biography

Andreu Jacob (born 18 September 1971 as Andreu Jacob Martinez Foglietti) is a Catalan composer. He works in such musical genres as classical and contemporary music, jazz, flamenco and other musical styles. Jacob was born on 18 September 1971 in Barcelona, Spain. He was brought up in a poor family that lived in the El Raval neighborhood. Jacob showed a great interest in music at the age of 9. He began his musical studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceo in Barcelona. A year later he made his first musical performance at theConservatorio Superior de Música del Liceo. At the age 14 he started to work with the Catalan guitarist Max Sunyer.

Andreu took the 1st place in the 75th Composer's Festival Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. He studied carpentry in Barcelona and architectural acoustics in France. In 1990 he published his first work. At the age of 23 he participated in an international jazz festival in Kraków, Poland and also in Zamość.

In 1995 at age 24, Andreu got his first sponsorship from the international company Paiste, agreement expiring in 2007 after accepting the proposal to work with his new sponsor Zildjian. He has participated in international jazz festivals. and performed in numerous concerts in many countries and cities – (New York City, Berlin, Porto, Lisbon, Norway, Sweden, London, Barcelona, Madrid etc.)

Jacob has written music in projects for Thomas Dodd, Peter Gric, Gottfried Helnwein,.In 2012 he moved to Sweden to continue his work. A year later Andreu Jacob moved to Norway where he lives up to now.

He was a member of the jury at the International Peterhof Film Festival 2021 (Saint Petersburg), TNISSFF 2019/2020 (Norway), 7th edition Curta Neblina 2020 (Brazil)

He was the sound designer of the film Seyran Ates – Sex Revolution and Islam. He was longlisted for an Oscar at the 94th Academy Awards 2022, in the category documentary feature.