Emily Jackson

Aside from performing, Emily is passionate about music education. She is a registered Suzuki teacher and an active member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. She also served two years on faculty as a coach, orchestra manager, and adjudicator for New England Conservatory’s Preparatory School Orchestra program.

In 2010, she accompanied her professor, Kathleen Winkler, to the Beijing International Music Festival and Academy in Beijing, China. Emily also spent four summers studying with leading violin pedagogue,Paul Kantor at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Most recently, Ms. Jackson spent eight weeks in the Berkshires as a fellow at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood Music Center.

 

Currently, Emily is a core member of both the Plano Symphony Orchestra and the East Texas Symphony Orchestra. She also regularly subs with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as well as many other local symphonies in the DFW area. 

 

 

Emily Jackson, 25-year-old violinist from Lawrenceville, Georgia, is a young professional artist who enjoys a career as both a chamber/ensemble musician and educator. 

 

After beginning Suzuki Method studies at age 5, Emily studied with Julia Waugh, Kim Akins and, for six years, Keiko Furness before studying with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra violinist, Ronda Respess. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston where she studied with internationally renowned violinist, Kathleen Winkler. 

 

Emily recently received her Master of Music degree from New England Conservatory as a student of Paul Biss. During her time in Boston, Ms. Jackson performed regularly with the New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra in Jordan Hall. She was also a member of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Benjamin Zander as well as a substitute violinist in both the New World Symphony Orchestra and the Rhode Island Philharmonic. 

 

A winner of numerous concerto competitions, Emily performed as a soloist with the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra in Atlanta Symphony Hall in 2008 and 2009. Other appearances have included performances with the Buckhead Youth Orchestra, Gwinnett County Youth Symphony, and as a winner of the Gainesville ProMusica Little Carnegie Hall Competition. 

 

As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with artists such asCho-Liang Lin, Kathleen Winkler, Timothy Pitts, Desmond Hoebig, and Ivo-Jan van der Werff. In the winter of 2012, she accompanied her student quartet on a tour of Aspen, Carbondale, and Glenwood Springs, Colorado, giving public concerts and participating in outreach workshops with local public schools. 

 

Emily has regularly attended summer music programs since the age of 12, including Encore, Too! and Encore School for Strings, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Heifetz International Music Institute. During that time, she studied with celebrated artistsDavid Russell, Timothy Ying, Dennis Kim, Pamela Frank, Catherine Cho, Judith Ingolffson, and Daniel Phillips, among others. 

 

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