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Champs Hill Records release

Innisfree

Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello
Dina Ivanova, piano 

Works by Fauré, Nadia Boulanger,
Elliott Carter, Andrew Norman, and Greco/Graziani

Available October 16^th, 2026

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BOSTON, MA (September 10, 2026) – Innisfree is the recording American cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins earned as winner of the 2023 Pierre Fournier Award, one of the most respected international prizes for young cellists. She took the award with pianist Dina Ivanova on the strength of Elliott Carter and Fauré, and both composers sit at the heart of this, their debut disc together.

The album follows one idea across nearly three and a half centuries: plainchant, and how the same source material survives even as the music built around it changes completely. The program runs from 1666 to 2008, every work carrying chant somewhere inside.

Two twentieth-century works sit at the center, linked by a single teaching line. Fauré wrote his Cello Sonata No.1 in D minor, Op.109 late in life, as he was losing his hearing. Carter's Cello Sonata is where he developed the rhythmic technique he became known for. Between them comes Nadia Boulanger's Trois pièces. Fauré taught Boulanger; Boulanger taught Carter.

Framing these are two reconstructions. The album opens, breaks and closes with three antiphons by Neapolitan cello teacher Rocco Greco, laid over Bonifazio Graziani's 1666 vocal manuscript in a new version by Michael Essl and Jacobs-Perkins, with singers Daisy Livesey, Gabriella Noble and Jack Harberd. It ends in the present with Andrew Norman's Sabina for solo cello.

The album is named after a family home on Lake Ontario, itself named after Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree". For Jacobs-Perkins it is her "orientation to home", a still point in a program that ranges across three centuries.

Track Listing

1. Rocco Greco, Bonifazio Graziani: Fidelis Servus [05:06]

Nadia Boulanger: Trois pièces
    2. Modéré [02:39]
    3. Sans vitesse et à l’aise [01:40]
    4. Vite et nerveusement rythmé [02:35]

5. Rocco Greco, Bonifazio Graziani: Miserator Dominus [06:27]

Fauré: Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 109
    6. Allegro [05:15]
    7. Andante [06:56]
    8. Final. Allegro commodo [07:04]

Carter, E: Cello Sonata
    9. Moderato [05:02]
    10. Vivace, molto leggiero [04:45]
    11. Adagio [05:43]
    12. Allegro [05:51]

13. Rocco Greco, Bonifazio Graziani: Ecce Sacerdos Magnus [04:41]

14. Norman, A: Sabina [07:37]

Length: 71 minutes

About Annie Jacobs-Perkins

Praised for anything from “hypnotic lyricism, causing listeners to forget where they were for a moment” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) to "delightfully pluck[ing] and slapp[ing] her cello like a rockabilly upright bassist," cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins is 1st prize winner of the 2023 Pierre Fournier Award and 2024 Buchet International Cello Competition. Recent highlights of past seasons include a recital debut at the Sydney Opera House, concerto debuts with the Austin Symphony Orchestra as well as at the Kennedy Center, an album release by her piano trio, and her first season as a member of Ensemble Modern.

Annie was the Artist-in-Residence of the Austin Chamber Music Center from 2023-25 and she is the cellist of the prize-winning Berlin-based piano trio, Trio Brontë. Annie regularly participates in festivals such as Krzyzowa Music, Marlboro Music, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, and Yellow Barn, where she has collaborated with artists such as Jonathan Biss, Miriam Fried, Nobuko Imai, Donald Weilerstein, and members of the Brentano, Doric, Juilliard, and Kuss Quartets. Her performances have brought her to venues such as Carnegie Hall, Flagey Studios, Konzerthaus Berlin, het Konzertgebouw, and Wigmore Hall. In addition, both as a member of Ensemble Modern and on her own, she has a deep commitment to performing music of living composers. She has collaborated with composers such as Thomas Adés, Brett Dean, Stratis Minakakis, Jeffrey Mumford, Dan Temkin, and Jörg Widmann.

Annie’s primary teachers are Frans Helmerson, Troels Svane, Laurence Lesser, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Kathleen Murphy Kemp. More info: https://www.anniejacobs-perkins.com/

About Dina Ivanova, piano

Dina Ivanova captivates audiences with her spellbinding performances, described as powerful, magical, and diabolic. Hailing from Ryazan, Russia (b. 1994), Ivanova has garnered acclaim through numerous competitions, securing second prize at the Liszt Competition in Weimar, 3rd Prize and Audience Award at the Liszt Competition Utrecht, 2nd prize Ricardo Vines Competition in Spain, among others.

Noteworthy accolades include an Honorary Mention Award at the Paderewski Competition in Poland and the Artist Recognition Award at the International Keyboard Festival in New York. She received a Junior Jury Award at the Busoni Piano Competition (2021) and in 2023 claimed first prizes at the Domenico Scarlatti Competition in Trapani and the Grand Chopin Prize at the 32nd Roma Piano Competition. In 2025 she got a second prize at the Sergio Fiorentino International Piano Competition in Novara.

Ivanova's talent has graced prestigious venues worldwide, including her debut performances at the Berliner Philharmonie (2022), Wigmore Hall (2024), Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory (2024), Seoul Arts Center, and appearances with the Concerto Budapest (2025), Rotterdam Philharmonic, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Thüringer Philharmonie, KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic, and others.

In 2021 she received a scholarship from the Carl Bechstein Foundation and took part in the Verbier Academy. She is part of the Lieven Piano Foundation in Vienna (2021, 2023).