Center Stage

Nadina Mackie Jackson, bassoon
April 11 | 7:30 p.m.
Wattenbarger Auditorium
Bryan Fine Arts Building

Named Instrumentalist of the Year 2020 by Just Plain Folks, NADINA MACKIE JACKSON is the most widely recorded Canadian bassoonist in history with 13 solo albums, 8 chamber music recordings and dozens of albums with symphony, chamber, and historical instrument orchestras.

The first woman bassoonist to receive tenure in a major Canadian orchestra, Nadina spent a decade with the Montreal Symphony and the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra before developing a distinguished chamber music and solo career.

Eighteen new works for solo bassoon and orchestra have been written for Nadina by Canadian and American composers including Mathieu Lussier, Paul Frehner, Eric Funk, Constantine Caravassilis, Lucas Oickle, Adam Scime and most recently, Chicago-based composer, Augusta Read Thomas.