Jan Cober

Jan Cober (born 1951) is a Dutch conductor and clarinet player.

Life

Jan Cober is child of a musical family from the village of Thorn, Netherlands. He played the clarinet in the "Royal Harmony of Thorn". He studied conducting and the clarinet at the Conservatory of Maastricht and completed both studies with a "Prix d'Excellence". Between 1972 and 1977 he was the first clarinet of the "Nederlandse omroeporkest" (Dutch broadcast orchestra) and starting in 1977 he was the solo clarinet player at the "Residentie Orkest" in Den Haag. He has worked with famous conductors Willem van Otterloo and Ferdinand Leitner. At an NOS broadcast course and competition for conductors led by Neeme Järvi he entered the final rounds.

Since 1976 he teaches clarinet and conductorship at the "Brabants conservatorium" in Tilburg, the Conservatory of Maastricht and the Conservatory of Utrecht. Additionally, he is part of the European Institute for Conducting in the Italian city of Trento.