Julia Jacobsen, a resident of Columbia, South Carolina, is a senior in the Honors College at the University of South Carolina-Columbia where she studies as a violin performance major under Dr. Ari Streisfeld and as a marketing major at the Darla Moore School of Business. She previously attended the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, where she studied violin under Deirdre Hutton and Jennifer John, and previously with Michele Cockram and Brian Gencarelli. She has attended several summer festivals such as Spoleto Festival USA, National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute, Interlochen Violin Institute, Piccolo Spoleto Rising Stars series, and Decoda Chamber Music Festival. Julia is currently a section violinist for the Aiken Symphony and a substitute violinist
