Sandra Jackson

Clarinetist Sandra Jackson is an international performer and clarinet instructor and an avid proponent of new music. She has been on the clarinet faculty at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Camp for more than twenty summers and is Professor of Clarinet at Eastern Michigan University.

An advocate of new music, Jackson has been involved with many new works for clarinet. She continues to participate in commissioning consortiums and performs premieres for solo and ensemble works by composers including James Stephenson, Roger Zare, Daniel Baldwin and Amanda Harberg. World premieres include Zodiacal Light, by Roger Zare, Deux Chanson, by Adolphus Hailstork, both at Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Whispers and Evocations, by Peter Terry, at the ClarinetFest Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Sandra Jackson is a frequent soloist with the Eastern Michigan University Wind Symphony and Orchestra, most recently performing the Concerto for Clarinet by Amanda Harberg with the EMU Wind Symphony. She can be heard on several recordings, including Chamber Music of Stephen Rush and Zae Munn’s They Were Mysterious Guests. Additionally, she can be heard on recordings with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México where she was Principal Clarinet from 1991-1995.

An active freelancer, she has performed with the Detroit Chamber Winds, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Martha Graham Dance Company, Grand Rapids Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Toledo Opera, Kalamazoo Symphony, Ann Arbor Symphony, Flint Symphony, Michigan Sinfonietta, and Detroit Opera. She has presented recitals and masterclasses throughout the United States and Mexico.

Sandra Jackson holds degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music (M.M.) and the University of Illinois (B.M.).