JACKSON, ISAIAH

JACKSON, ISAIAH. Symphony orchestra conductor (22 January 1945 in Richmond, Virginia). He obtained his musical education at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (B.A., 1966) where he first studied conducting; at Stanford University in California (M.A., 1967); and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York (M.Mus., 1969; D.M.A., 1973), where he founded and conducted the Juilliard String Ensemble. The seventeen-piece ensemble toured in the state of New York. His conducting experience included...