Charles (Chuck) Jackson (GA)

Dr. Charles (Chuck) Jackson has completed 39 years as a professional Music Educator and currently serves as a Part-Time Assistant Professor at the Kennesaw State University School of Music in Cobb County, Georgia. In addition to his classes at KSU, he serves as the Faculty Advisor for the Nu Theta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and is the Part-Time Faculty Council Representative for the School of Music. Before joining the faculty at KSU, Dr. Jackson served 34 years as a very successful Director of Bands at the high school and middle school levels.

Dr. Jackson has a Bachelor of Music Education degree (University of Southern Mississippi-1979); Master of Science degree in Music Education (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign-1984); Education Specialist degree in Instrumental Music Education (Georgia State University-1994); Doctor of Musical Arts degree (Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester, Virginia-2008). He has instructed at many symposia, clinics and camps nationally and abroad, and was a principal author for Teaching Music Through Performance in Middle School Band; a contributing author for the InTune Magazine; and author of The Band Directors’ Book of Secrets.

He has served as the invited guest conductor for honor bands and served as a performance adjudicator in Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and Indiana. He serves as a clinician for over 400 trumpet students each month for the public and private schools in Cobb County and the surrounding areas, and maintains an active career as a trumpet performer, conductor, clinician, guest speaker, and author. He has served as the assistant director of the North Atlanta Trumpet Ensemble and is the founder/director of the North Georgia German Band. In April of 2016, he was appointed the director of the Cobb New Horizons Symphonic Band, an 80-member ensemble of adult musicians based in Cobb County, Georgia.

Too many honors have been awarded to Dr. Jackson to include in this space. In addition to multiple Who’s Who recognitions, Teacher of the Year awards and many other honors, he was selected to study with the London Symphony from among 30,000 nominations nationally.

Dr. Jackson has been an officer (and presumably, a gentleman) in Georgia Music Educators Association and has been recognized with a Congressional Proclamation as a Georgia STAR teacher.