Upcoming performances

Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.

Christ Episcopal Church, Cody, Wyoming

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Wyoming-based baroque violinist Conor Jacobson joins the celebrated Parisian harpsichordist Ronan Khalil for a special reunion performance in Cody, Wyoming. Featured works will include Bach, Biber, Muffat, Fontana, and other Baroque composers. This concert reconvenes the duo’s early-music band, “No-Body’s Jigg.”

At dawn on an alfalfa farm near Pavillion, Wyoming, Conor Jacobson circles the fields on his tractor, creating textures and patterns, and continuing a family tradition. Like the violin music he plays, farming, for Conor, is a space for introspection, repeating cycles, and continuance. 

Conor grew up on a farm near Riverton, Wyoming. He began studying violin when he was four years old, with the encouragement of his family, and soon began making a weekly trip with his grandfather to Casper for violin lessons. At the age of thirteen, he began performing frequently throughout the state in chamber groups and as a soloist. 

Conor studied music at Casper College and the University of Arizona before deciding to pursue historically informed performance practice (HIP) at the world-renowned early music department of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, The Netherlands. There he spent the next four years studying specialized historical, technical and philosophical approaches to music from the late Renaissance to the Classical eras with emphasis on the Baroque period. He received lessons and coaching from, and performed with, many of the leading teachers and performers in the early music field. Conor performed extensively in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, and Chile. This concert reunites Conor and the harpsichordist Ronan Khalil, who also studied in the Hague and is currently based in Paris, France.

Ever a country boy at heart, Conor returned to Wyoming, much preferring the slower tempo. While remaining active as a performer, he teaches violin at Veritas Academy and in his private studio, and remains devoted to family and farm.

Ronan Khalil maintains a busy performance schedule as a soloist and collaborator. This season he performs with ensemble Pygmalion, Près de votre oreille, and the Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal de Versailles.

Ronan has recorded with Pygmalion, the Freiburger Baroque Orchestra, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Zachary Wilder, Paul Figuier, Thibaut Roussel, Mathilde Vialle, and Clara Izambert-Jarry. His first solo recording will be released this year on Oktav Records..

Born in Rennes, Ronan Khalil first started music as a boy, singing at the Maitrise de Bretagne. After graduating from Paris Conservatory, he was selected as a harpsichordist at French Baroque Youth Orchestra, Ambronay, Mondovi, and Aix-en-Provence. He was awarded first prize and prize of the public at the Fondation Marcelle et Robert Delacour's competition, first prize in Bologna's competition, the Oriolis-Kriegelstein's prize and grant at Paris Conservatory and prize of the public at the Westfield competition in College Park, Washington.

Ronan is a permanent member of the Ensemble Pygmalion and works regularly with Les Siècles and Ensemble Correspondances. Until 2024, he served as artistic director of the collectif ActeSix, the record label Oktav Records and the festival Les Moments Musicaux de Gerberoy. For many years he accompanied the countertenor Max-Emanuel Cencic in recitals in Strasbourg, Paris, Munich, Berlin, Biarritz, Glasgow, and La Habana.