Leah Hecht Jacob has roots in Dayton, Ohio.  She
attended Bishop Liebold school through 8th grade
and then attended Centerville High School.  She took
lessons with many of Dayton's cello teachers then
went on to perform with the
Starling Preparatory
Program out of Cincinnati.  With this group she
toured Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.  They
returned to the U.S. and played in New York at Alice
Tully Hall in Lincoln Center.  This same group later
went to Colorado to perform at the
Aspen Music
Festival.  Leah spent a summer in Weston,Vermont
at
Kinhaven Music School where she learned many
virtues of performing gracefully.

She graduated from Centerville High School in 1994
and was granted scholarship to
Cincinnati's College
Conservatory of Music.  She received chamber music
coaching from the
Tokyo String Quartet and
Amernet String Quartet.  She received private lessons
from
Lee Fiser and Yehuda Hanani.  With CCM's
Philharmonia Orchestra Leah traveled to Portugal
and played at the World's Fair in 1997.  She
graduated from CCM in 1998 and won a position
playing in the
Springfield Symphony.  She has also
played with the Dayton Philharmonic as a substitute
and sits principle in the
Lebanon Symphony.   Leah
is also the manager and cellist for the
Rose' Trio.  In
1999 Leah founded
Cellisimo, an educational
summer camp for cellists.

Along with her private cello studio, Cellisimo
program, string trio, and symphonies, Leah also is
busy raising her three young children.  She resides in
Mason, Ohio with her husband and kids.
Who is Leah Jacob?