Carl Jackson

Associate Director and Director of Development, Clarinet

Clarinetist Carl Jackson has received praise from peers as well as musical legends the likes of Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celebidache. By age 17, while attending the High School for the Performing Arts in New York City and the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Division, Carl had already appeared as a soloist on the stages of Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall. He later attended the Curtis School of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with Donald Montanaro and Anthony Gigliotti, both of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Carl has been a member of or has performed with numerous orchestras, including the New World Symphony, The Utah Symphony, The Glimmerglass Opera, The Sarasota Opera, The Philharmonic Orchestra of Florida, The American Symphony Orchestra, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, The New York City Housing Symphony, The Dance Theatre of Harlem, Solisti of New York, The San Francisco Symphony, The Grand Teton Music Festival, European Tours of "Westside Story" and "My Fair Lady", The Iris Chamber Orchestra, Broadway’s "Finians’ Rainbow", The American Ballet Theatre and The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Carl is also the designer of Allpoint ligatures and the arranger of "The Big Bach Book" for clarinet quartet. Carl is a native of East Harlem.