BIOGRAPHY

Jackson Gearing (b. 2001) is a composer, conductor and tubist currently based in Kansas City. He has written music ranging from large wind ensembles and orchestras, to solo and chamber instrumental works, and to art songs for voice and colorful accompanying instruments.

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Jackson regularly participates in acclaimed summer music festivals, premiering his works at New Music On the Point in Vermont, the VIPA Composition Festival in Spain, and the Sofia Symphonic Summit in Bulgaria. In February of 2024, he participated in the Nes Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland. Jackson was also composer in residence for the 2024-25 Volker Brass Quintet at the UMKC Conservatory.

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Recent noteworthy performances include the premiere of string quartet, Thaw by the Mivos Quartet in Valencia, Spain, his graduate recital featuring his new brass quintet, Temperaments, in Kansas City, and his first orchestral premiere, Moskstraumen, with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria. His music has spanned seven countries, including an art song of his, A Persuasion, performed by the Kandinsky Society, an orchestra based in Yerevan, Armenia; and The Dance of Two Sprites, a flute and tuba duet performed in Athens, Greece.

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Jackson’s newest large ensemble work, Inundation for wind symphony, was awarded winner of the 48th Annual Festival of New American Music and is set to premiere later this November by the CSU Sacramento Wind Symphony. Jackson also won the “Outstanding Student in Composition” award and “Outstanding Performance of a Student Composition” award from the Lamont School of Music in 2023, the latter from his popular brass ensemble work, River.

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Jackson is currently guided by Yotam Haber and Chen Yi in his compositional works. Previous instructors include Sean Friar and Nathan Hall. He also keeps up with tuba and has studied in his undergraduate years with Warren Deck and Kathy Brantigan.

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