Marianne Jacobs was born in the Netherlands. She received her professional education at the Royal Academy of Music in The Hague with Masterdegrees in both Performance and Education. At the Royal Academy of Music in Brussels she won the First Prize in chambermusic and she completed her studies at the Royal Academy in Stockholm with Masterdegrees in Performance and Education.

Marianne Jacobs also studied solorepertoire with Jacques Février in Paris, Maria Curcio in London , Rudolf Firkusny in Lucerne and chambermusic with Andras Mihály in Budapest. After a well-received debut in The Hague and Stockholm, her career took off with concert tours as solist with orchestra ,solo recitals and as chambermusician in the Scandinavian and European countries, Lithuania, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbadjan, Canada, USA, Mexico , Brazil, China and Japan.

Marianne Jacobs has made numerous recordings for the Swedish Broadcasting , becoming the Artist of the Week as well as produced many TV series with chambermusic programmes, has participated in documentation of swedish contemporary music, film music for Fanny and Alexander ( director Ingmar Bergman), masterclasses in USA, Brazil, Bergen, Birmingham, Manchester, Lisboa, Vienna, Vilnius, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Japan. Summercourses , festivals and artistic and educational pprojects are continuously part of her life, like the serie with integral violinsonatas by Beethoven with violinist Wieska Szymczynskain 2012 and cello sonattas with cellist Hege Waldeland 2014.

She also was president of EPTA Sweden from 2006-2009. For her long career as a teacher she was honored 2017 by the Royal Academy of Music with the Maj von Rosen Prize.

Marianne Jacobs is Ass. Professor at the Academy of Music in Malmö/ Lunds University, and the artistc director and founder of the Nordic International Piano Competition ( NPCM.se) at the Academy of Music in Malmö.

Marianne Jacobs