Laura Jackson, music director for Reno Philharmonic, now in her 14th season, is paving a new direction for up-and-coming female conductors and composers through her artistry, leadership and creative community engagement.
Although she no longer played the violin professionally, she taught at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. The Academy needed a conductor for the amateur orchestra, and Jackson willingly stepped into the role; it was her foray into the world of conducting. That experience prompted her to go back to school to study the specific art form.
“I played for a long time, but I was in pain,” Jackson expresses. “I didn’t become a conductor because I could no longer play the violin. I became a conductor because I felt like conducting was a better fit for me in so many ways. I was sitting in orchestras so fascinated by the timpani part or what the woodwinds were playing that I would miss an entry. So that’s when I knew that it was really on the podium that I wanted to be.
Her first professional conducting performance was with an ad hoc group of experienced players in Boston. Although Jackson was nervous, she confidently led them through the pieces, solidifying her decision to become a conductor. She then served as the first female assistant conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
She has since gone on to guest conduct nationally and internationally. Her portfolio includes performances with Atlanta, Baltimore, Berkeley, Hawaii and Winnipeg symphonies. In addition, Jackson has had concerts with the Philly POPS and L’Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne in France.
“I have learned to ask for more,” Jackson concludes. “Not because I want it but because the music demands it; the composer went to the trouble with pen and ink to write down all of these little dots and dashes. Because they labored for months and years to create this two-dimensional object, something on a piece of paper, it is our responsibility to breathe life into it; to put it into a multi-dimensional space.
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