Colin Jacobsen is a musician who draws on a range of influences. He is active as an Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning soloist and a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s famed Silkroad Ensemble. For his work as a founding member of two game-changing, audience-expanding ensembles Brooklyn Rider and The Knights, Jacobsen was recently selected from among the nation’s top artists to receive a prestigious United States Artists Fellowship. Jacobsen’s work as a composer was inspired by encounters with leading exponents of non-Western…