Third-year Violin Fellow Scott Jackson is an accomplished performer, having competed in numerous competitions and selected as a semi-finalist in the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Sphinx competitions. In 2015 he was accepted into a fellowship position with the Grant Park Symphony in Chicago, where he performed extensively with both the orchestra as well as a member of the PI String Quartet. In 2017 he received his doctorate of musical arts degree from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and spent the year performing with All of the Above, a six-person new music ensemble in residence at Xavier University.

Mr. Jackson currently performs in several orchestras and ensembles, including the Dayton Philharmonic and Las Vegas Philharmonic. He has also been invited for the past four years to play with the Sphinx Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra for its six-week tours across the United States. Mr. Jackson is a founding member of the Price Hill String Quartet, which performed regularly in Cincinnati and earned a grant from ArtsWave, the nation’s largest community campaign for the arts. In 2017 he joined the faculty of Porterville Summer Strings, an intensive two-week music festival in Porterville, California, as both a performer and teacher. As the violinist in All of the Above, Mr. Jackson recently performed at Carnegie Hall as part of a New Music Fusion Festival before recording its first musical collaboration shortly after: a full-length album featuring the music of Edward Smaldone and Douglass Knehans.