BIOGRAPHY

Jackson Gearing is a composer, conductor, tubist, and recent graduate from the Lamont School of
Music (BM in Composition, 2023). He has written and performed various chamber pieces for wind
instruments, large brass ensemble music, and music for wind ensemble and orchestra, as well as
various arrangements of composers such as Silvestrov, Pärt, Sibelius and Ruggles.

Recent successes include his first orchestral premiere, Moskstraumen, with the Sofia Philharmonic
Orchestra in Bulgaria; a chamber work of his, A Persuasion, performed by the Kandinsky Society, an
orchestra based in Yerevan, Armenia; and winning the “Outstanding Student in Composition”
award from the Lamont School of Music in 2023. He also frequently conducts his larger ensemble
music, such as Meditations for Brass and River, the latter winning an “Outstanding Performance of a
Student Composition” award from the Lamont School of Music in June 2023. He is currently guided
by Sean Friar in his compositional works. He also keeps up with tuba under the tutelage of Warren
Deck and Kathy Brantigan.

Last February, Jackson participated in the Nes Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland, where he
began work on his first symphony, which he completed just in time for his first year at the
University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. There, he will pursue an MM in Composition with
an applied focus in Tuba Performance.

Jackson’s largest influences are 20th-century composers such as Schnittke, Rouse, Xenakis, and
Shostakovich, as well as contemporary composers Andrew Norman and Thomas Adès.