Jacob Gramit

Originally from Edmonton, baritone Jacob Gramit is currently living in the Netherlands, pursuing a Master’s Degree in Early Music from the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, studying with Pascal Bertin, Peter Kooij, Michael Chance, Dorothee Mields, Robin Blaze, and Lenie van der Heuvel. Highlights have included projects ranging from Franco-Flemish Polyphony from original notation under Stratton Bull, to a tour of Bach’s B Minor Mass (with performances in America and the Netherlands) under Ton Koopman, to singing Louis Andriessen’s De Materie under Reinbert de Leeuw, as well as projects with Charles Toet, Pieter Jan Belder, Mike Fentross and Peter van Heyghen. Before moving abroad, Jacob lived in Vancouver, where he attended the University of British Columbia (BMus, 2012), and sang for three seasons with musica intima, as well as singing as a section leader in the Vancouver Cantata Singers and the Christ Church Cathedral Choir. As a chorister, he has performed with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra under Alexander Weimann on several occasions, and was selected to participate in a performance of Spem in Alium and other renaissance masterworks with the Tallis Scholars (under Peter Philips), presented by Carnegie Hall.