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NATO Sisterhood Choir Live at Trinity Church
May 30 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Sisterhood Choir is comprised of women from throughout the NATO community headquartered here in Hampton Roads. Free performance.
About the Conductor
Annedore Hacker-Jakobi is University Professor for Choral Conducting at the University of Music in Hamburg (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg), where she teaches choral conducting and conducts the Church Music Choir and the Women’s Choir. She founded a select choir consisting of the best choral singers from the University to create a studio choir for masterclasses. She cooperates with various departments of the university, including the theater department and the multimedia department to carry out contemporary music projects.
She is an Assistant Professor at the Music Academy of Schleswig Holstein and co-founder of the new “Nordklang Festival” in northern Germany, which promotes chamber choirs and offers masterclasses and workshops for choral singers and conductors.
Hacker-Jakobi enjoys working with choirs of varying levels. She directs the Hamburg-Volksdorf Symphonic Choir as well as the staff choir at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg concert hall. Before moving to the northern part of Germany, she held positions as Assistant Professor at the University in Karlsruhe and the Church Music University in Rottenburg, Stuttgart and was Music Director at the Kammertheater Karlsruhe (theater), which also included arranging and composing.
In 2023 she was selected as one of six conductors in Germany to participate in the ACDA International Conductors Exchange program.
Annedore Hacker-Jakobi was born in Algiers, Algeria. At the age of 4 her family moved to Germany, and she grow upon Lake Constance. She studied music education and choral conducting at the University of Music in Karlsruhe and received further diploma (equivalent of a masters in music) in choral and orchestral conducting at the University of Music in Würzburg, Bavaria. During her studies she was awarded a scholarship to study abroad in Finland. Hacker-Jakobi is currently taking a sabbatical and lives with her husband and her first child in Norfolk, Virginia. There she was asked to conduct the military spouses Choir (“Sisterhood Choir) of the international NATO Community.