Bates, Michael Daugherty, Christopher Theofanidis, Samuel Adler, John Harbison, Stephen Paulus, and Wayne Oquin. Since 2014, Jacobs has served as the Director of the Oregon Bach Festival Organ Institute. Jacobs has written several articles for The Wall Street Journal, including "The Staying Inside Guide: Pulling Out All the Stops" and "The Staying Inside Guide: The Vital Sounds of Contemporary Organ", and one advocating for a pipe organ to be returned to David Geffen Hall in New York City. Awards and honors In addition to numerous awards and honors, Jacobs was the first organist to be given the Harvard Musical Association's Arthur W. Foote Award in 2004. He received the Yale School of Music's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2005, and in 2007 he was awarded the William Schuman Scholars Chair at the Juilliard School. He won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) at the 53rd Grammy Awards in 2011 for his recording of Messiaen: Livre Du Saint-Sacrement. In May 2017, Jacobs was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Washington & Jefferson College. In 2021, The American Guild of Organists named Jacobs the recipient of the International Performer of the Year Award. Recordings Paul Jacobs plays Bach: an unedited release (JAV 145) Messiaen: Livre Du Saint-Sacrement Ives: A Concord Symphony & Copland: Organ Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor "American Mavericks: Lou Harrison Organ Concerto", San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Michael Daugherty: "The Gospel According to Sister Aimee," Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Carl St. Clair, conductor Divine Redeemer, Christine Brewer, soprano. Released September 2015. Michael Daugherty: "Tales of Hemingway, American Gothic & Once upon a Castle (Live)," Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Zuill Bailey, cello. Released September 2016. Bernd Richard Deutsch: Okeanos, Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst. Samuel Barber: Toccata Festiva, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and James Gaffigan Camille Saint-Saëns, La Foi, 3 Tableaux symphoniques Op.130, Symphony n 3 in C minor Op.78, Paul Jacobs, organ, Utah Symphony, conducted by Thierry Fisher. CD Hyperion 2019 References External links In Praise of Pipes 1977 births American classical organists American male organists Curtis Institute of Music alumni Yale School of Music alumni Grammy Award winners Juilliard School faculty Living people 21st-century organists 21st-century American male musicians 21st-century American keyboardists Male classical organists