KSU Orchestra Black History Month Program

• Kennesaw State University Symphony Orchestra
• Tyrone Jackson, piano

Part of KSU's Black History Month Festival, Friday Night Spotlight Series, Orchestras Series. 

The KSU Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Bailey School of Music Director of Orchestral Studies Nathaniel F. Parker, presents an evening of music that celebrates Black art, artists, and culture. The program will feature BSOM faculty artist Tyrone Jackson in a performance of Duke Ellington's rhapsody for piano and orchestra, New World A-Comin'.

About Kennesaw State University Department of Music

https://arts.kennesaw.edu/music/index.php

About Tyrone Jackson, piano

The name Tyrone Jackson is the quintessential jazz piano player. His boundless creativity coupled with harmonic mastery, utilizes the piano as a blank canvas. Jackson is nationally recognized and has traveled the world as a solo artist and sideman.

As a composer, Jackson has composed original music for Pulitizer Prize winning author Natasha Tretheway's book of poems "Native Guard" turned theatrical play, Pearl Clege's play, "Tell Me My Dream", "Ethel" and the Alliance Theater production of “Nick’s Flamingo Grill.” Jackson has recorded 4 Albums—“Dedicated”, “Another Voyage”, “Melody In Nede”, and new release “From The Mind Of.”

Currently Tyrone Jackson is a professor at Kennesaw State University where he is Lecturer of Jazz Piano and teaches a myriad of classes. Jackson is also a clinician and teacher for the Rialto Arts Jazz program for middle school and is a clinician for Clayton County Arts Association.