Jacob Garside
Cello, Viola da Gamba
Jacob Garside is a freelance cellist and viola da gamba player, based in London. He attended the RAM studying baroque cello and viol with Jonathan Manson, and the RCM studying viol with Richard Boothby and Reiko Ichise, supported by the Enlightenment and Hill Scholarships respectively. He is currently studying viola da gamba with Robert Smith on the Konzertexamen course at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Köln.
He has played orchestrally for St James Baroque, La Nuova Musica, Academy of Ancient Music, Instruments of Time and Truth, Oxford Bach Soloists, Gabrieli Consort, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Det Norske Blåseensemble. He is a regular player for ETO and The OAE Education Orchestra. A keen chamber musician, he has played for Rachel Podger’s Brecon Baroque, Spiritato, Opera Settecento, Endelienta Baroque and the viol consorts Fretwork, Newes Vialles and London Viols. In 2020, Jacob was a founding member of The Hampstead Collective, where their monthly concert series is in the midst of its fourth year. He is playing, acting, singing and dancing in the Manchester International Festival’s opera, ‘The Faggots and their Friends: Between Revolutions’, on their worldwide tour including: Aix-en-Provence, New York, Paris, Bregenz and Amsterdam. He is the cello and viol tutor at Baroque Week, a summer residential course for HIP students.
