CELEBRATIONS

Twelve years as Professor of Clarinet at the University of Northern Colorado and master class engagements at institutions including Rice University, Northwestern University, Indiana University, the Eastman School of Music, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Vanderbilt, and music festivals in the US and abroad allow Lauren to lean into mentoring students on courageous artistry and creative and systematic practice. Lauren holds a Master of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music. 

An activist at heart, Lauren has engaged in numerous arts-based advocacy projects, integrating musical performance with visual art, storytelling, and scientific research. Collaborators have included non-profit founders, national grant recipients, scientists, conductors, musicians, writers, and storytellers. Her most recent project is the creation of The Realm, an innovative event series in Fort Collins, CO that builds community by bringing people together for a co-creative concert experience involving spoken word, live music, and art. As Artistic Director, Lauren works closely with The Realm Collective, a diverse team of creatives, artists, writers, mental health professionals, scientists, social workers, and musicians. Together, they curate each themed event and collaborate with local organizations, engaging in deep, multigenerational community building. Other creative projects explore the intersection between the arts and environmental policy in “Radical Futures”, a storytelling project that brings to life alternative futures based on policy decisions for our planet.

Raising awareness about musician health led Lauren to co-create Summit Musicians with colleague Dr. Stephanie Zelnick in 2022. The clarinet duo climb mountains and perform at the summit, including mountain peaks above 14,000 feet. Lauren also curates musical responses to visual art, most recently at the Moody Gallery at Rice University in Houston, TX, where her lecture series and collaboration with students at Rice culminated in a live improvised musical response to Anri Sala’s “The Last Resort” art installation.  

Outside of music, you may find Lauren training for her next trail ultramarathon, traveling in pursuit of good food, digging in the hard-packed Colorado clay soil of her veggie garden, or playing with her two young children. Visit laurenjacobsonmusic.com for more information.