JACOBUS DE JAGER

South African conductor Jacobus de Jager is the 2025/26 Junior Fellow in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music and a conducting fellow on the Royal Philharmonic Society's Conducting Programme. He was recently one of the final seven conductors in the 2026 Mahler Competition in Bamberg and has been selected as one of four conductors for the Lucerne Festival's Contemporary Conducting Programme. He has worked with leading orchestras including the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Manchester Camerata, The Hallé, Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est, and Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra.