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The third generation cellist in her family, Annette Jakovcic has been invited to perform recitals throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia and has been praised for her sound being "heartbreakingly sincere". (Richard Dyer, Boston Globe).
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Annette Jakovcic has appeared in prominent festivals including the Ravel Festival, Pau Casals Festival in Catalonia, Lavaux Classic, and Gstaad Menuhin Festivals. Notable chamber music partners have included Midori, Pierre Amoyal, Rainer Honeck, Ettore Causa, Pavel Vernikov, Gérard Poulet, and Péter Nagy. She has received further guidance from renowned artists including Gautier Capuçon, Steven Isserlis, Ivan Monighetti, Philippe Muller, and Maxim Vengerov.
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Annette Jakovcic began her studies with Wendy Warner and received her Bachelor's degree from the New England Conservatory in Boston with Laurence Lesser. She was mentored by members of the Cleveland and Juilliard Quartets and as a chamber musician won top prizes in the Plowman and Fischoff International Chamber Music Competitions. She was also a string-quartet fellow at the Bowdoin International Summer Festival and the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar.
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In 2022 Annette Jakovcic graduated from the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg in the class of Clemens Hagen. During her studies she performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto as a soloist at the Salzburg Festspielhaus with the Universität Mozarteum Orchestra and was invited to play a recital under the prestigious Stiftung Mozarteum Organization.
From 2022-2024 Annette Jakovcic was a member of the Vienna Philharmonic Academy program. During this time she won the academy's Fritz Leitermeyer Strings Competition. She performed in venues including the Musikverein, Berliner Philharmonie, Suntory Hall, Carnegie Hall, Prague Rudolfinum, Concertgebouw, and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with conductors including Christian Thielemann, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Jakub Hrůša, Tugan Sokhiev, Ádám Fischer, Krill Petrenko, and Andris Nelsons. She has performed chamber music with members of the orchestra in Austria, the United States, and Japan.
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Recently, Annette Jakovcic appeared as guest principal cellist with the Dresdner Philharmonie and the Neues Orchester Basel. She toured in Nepal as a string quartet with Midori as a part of Music Sharing's ICEP Program in order to bring music to communities that have difficulty accessing it. She currently studies with Nicolas Altstaedt at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and plays on a 1740 cello made in Perugia by Giacomo Gavelli.
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