Peter Jacobs is an English pianist.
Jacobs was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Alexander Kelly and Eric Fenby. For a while he was Director of Music at Taunton School, but returned to London to begin his career as a concert pianist, examiner and adjudicator. His initial public performances were in chamber groups, and as part of a pianist duo with Elizabeth Lightoller before making his solo debut at the Wigmore Hall on 9 May 1975 with a programme of little-known 20th century composers.
He has continued to concentrate on out-of-the-way repertoire of the late 19th and 20th centuries throughout his subsequent career, playing works by such figures as Henry Balfour Gardiner, Alan Bush, Benjamin Dale, John Foulds, Trevor Hold, Billy Mayerl, Betty Roe, Harold Truscott and Percy Turnbull. He also performed the sometimes neglected piano works of more mainstream figures such as Frank Bridge and Vaughan Williams. One of his first recordings in 1987 was The Lake in the Mountains, including the complete piano music of Vaughan Williams.