Stuart Jackson is a percussionist and uilleann piper from Virginia, now based in Brooklyn. An active performer of traditional and contemporary music, he eschews the popular trend of frenetically commissioning the creation of new work, and instead devotes himself to an in depth engagement with musical work primarily from the 20th century. The graphic scores of John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and others are not only perceived as artifacts from recent music history, but radical blueprints that provide infinite possibilities for discovering new sound worlds.
Recent projects include realizations of 27'10.554" for a percussionist, Duet for Cymbal, and Cartridge Music by John Cage, and keyboard percussion transcriptions of Messagesquisse and Dialogue de l'Ombre Double by Pierre Boulez.
In addition to using the uilleann pipes as a sound source in realizations of contemporary music, he has also studied the traditional music of pipers Seamus Ennis, Tommy Reck, Leo Rowsome, and others. He currently is a traditional music instructor at the Irish Arts Center in NYC.
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Recent projects include realizations of 27'10.554" for a percussionist, Duet for Cymbal, and Cartridge Music by John Cage, and keyboard percussion transcriptions of Messagesquisse and Dialogue de l'Ombre Double by Pierre Boulez.
In addition to using the uilleann pipes as a sound source in realizations of contemporary music, he has also studied the traditional music of pipers Seamus Ennis, Tommy Reck, Leo Rowsome, and others. He currently is a traditional music instructor at the Irish Arts Center in NYC.
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