Annedore Hacker-Jakobi is University Professor for Choral Conducting at the University of Music in Hamburg (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg), where she teaches choral conducting and conducts the Concert choir of the Church Music Department Choir and the Women’s Choir of the University.  She founded a select choir consisting of the best choral singers from the University to create a studio choir for masterclasses. She cooperates with various departments of the university, including the theater department and the multimedia department to carry out contemporary music projects.

 
Hacker-Jakobi is an Assistant Professor at the Music Academy of Schleswig Holstein and co-founder of the new “Nordklang Festival” in northern Germany, which promotes chamber choirs and offers masterclasses and workshops for choral singers and conductors.

Hacker-Jakobi enjoys working with choirs of varying levels. She directs the Hamburg-Volksdorf Symphonic Choir (Walddörfer Kantorei) and was the first conductor of the staff choir of the concert house Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. Before moving to the northern part of Germany, she held positions as Assistant Professor at the University in Karlsruhe and the Church Music University in Rottenburg, Stuttgart and was Music Director at the Kammertheater Karlsruhe (theater), which also included arranging and composing. In Karlsruhe she directed several ensembles, including baroque ensembles to perform Bach Cantatas.

 
2023 she was selected as one of six conductors in Germany to participate in the ACDA International Conductors Exchange program. 
Annedore Hacker-Jakobi was born in Algiers, Algeria. At the age of 4 her family moved to Germany, and she grow up on Lake Constance. She studied music education and choral conducting at the University of Music in Karlsruhe and received further diploma (equivalent of a masters in music) in choral and orchestral conducting at the University of Music in Würzburg, Bavaria. During her studies she was awarded a scholarship to study abroad in Finland and won the first prize of the music education department. 2023/2024 Annedore Hacker-Jakobi took a sabbatical and lived with her husband and her first child for two years in the United States (Norfolk, Virginia). There she was asked to conduct the military spouses Choir (“Sisterhood Choir”) of the international NATO Community and to lead the young singers project of the professional Choir “Virginia Chorale” (artistic director: Chuck Woodward).