Jacques Lee Wood is a Boston-based cellist known for his diverse and dynamic musical career. Wood’s performance interests are notably eclectic, encompassing historical performances on period instruments, commissioning new works for both modern and baroque cello, improvisation incorporating live electronics, and composing his own material. He serves as the Principal Cellist of the Cape Symphony and frequently collaborates with esteemed groups such as A Far Cry, Cantata Singers, Yale Schola Cantorum, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Bachsolisten Seoul, and Bach Collegium Japan.
Wood holds faculty positions at the University of New Hampshire and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (Intensive Community Program). He has also held faculty residencies at institutions like Yale University, the University of Ulsan, Tufts University, Boston Conservatory, and most recently New York University, University of Sao Paulo-Campinas, Istanbul University, and Istanbul Technical University. Wood actively participates in various festivals and programs, including the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (Yale Summer School), Summer Youth Music School at the University of New Hampshire, the Great Mountains Festival in South Korea, the Korea Strings Research Institute, the Bari International Music Festival, the Banff Centre, Avaloch Farm, Aston Magna, and the Manchester Summer Chamber Music Festival.
As a recording artist, Wood has released works on the Hyperion and Navona labels. He completed his Bachelor of Music at the New England Conservatory of Music under Laurence Lesser and earned both his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from Yale University, where he studied with Aldo Parisot.
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