Katie Jacobson

Katie Jacobson is a Seattle based composer, pianist and vocalist. Although well known in the area for winning the Ella Fitzgerald Vocal Award at the Essentially Ellington competition in New York City, she writes and performs in a variety of music styles. Katie graduated from Central Washington University in 2010 where she studied music and philosophy. While in school, she was a part of many jazz and classical music ensembles.

Katie currently works as a professional musician when she is not teaching lessons. She plays piano and sings in her own singer-songwriter project “Honey Noble,” sings in the avant-garde jazz quartet “Kromer” and participates in many other ensembles around Seattle. She has performed music with ensembles associated with the following genres of music: surf rock, classical music, jazz, musical theater, folk, soul/R&B, rap, electronic music, avant garde, free jazz/experimental music, blues, and many others.

Katie also has a passion for teaching and feels that creating art is an inherently human activity that everyone has the capacity to enjoy, no matter their skill level. She feels that music lessons should, in fact, incorporate an element of “play” as well as discipline, and encourages her students to imagine, dream and work hard so that they can create and perform things that are meaningful and exciting to them.

Katie is excited to be teaching piano and voice and she hopes to help more students dream and reach their goals.

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