Position:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, BassoonEmail: schuyler.jackson@sxtcyb.com
Employed Since:
Spring 2025Educational History:
B.M., University of Hartford; M.M., Manhattan School of Music
Professional Highlights:
A celebrated musician based in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, Schuyler Jackson is the second bassoonist in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO), a position he has held since 2014. In the 2022/23 season, Schuyler also held a one-year position in the Minnesota Orchestra, performing as a full-time member of the bassoon section. A multifaceted musician, Schuyler has performed as substitute principal bassoon in the Minnesota Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and Bach in Baltimore. Schuyler has appeared with numerous other orchestras throughout the United States, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Schuyler’s playing can be heard on the Minnesota Orchestra: Mahler Symphony No. 3 (2024) recording and the Naxos albums Bernstein: Marin Alsop’s Complete Naxos Recordings (2018) and Sergey Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet (2018) with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Recordings of his performances have been broadcast live from the BBC Proms, NPR & WNYC’s Ask Me Another podcast, WBJC-FM, WABE-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and YourClassical MPR from Minnesota Public Radio. Live and archived performances can be heard on BSO OffStage, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Digital Concert Series, Minnesota Orchestra Digital Concert Hall, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Behind the Curtain Digital Series. Schuyler has appeared in articles and interviews for The Baltimore Sun, The New York Times, Herald-Mail Media, on WBJC-FM, BSO OffStage, and makes a photo appearance in the book Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: A Century of Sound by Michael J. Lisicky.
An avid chamber musician, Schuyler is passionate about getting out into the community to perform new and lesser-known chamber music works with his colleagues. He has performed chamber music at public and private schools in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore County Public Library, Austin Minnesota Public Library, Baltimore VA Medical Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Penn-Station, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, for the Baltimore Symphony Musicians Subway Series at the Charles Center Metro Subway Station, and in a trio representing the Baltimore Symphony in collaboration with University of Maryland and Sound Impact for the Voices of Prince George’s County program at Bowie Branch Library in Maryland. Additionally, Schuyler is a frequent performer on the Community Concerts at Second Chamber Music by Candlelight series in Baltimore, where he has collaborated with colleagues to perform the works of André Jolivet, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Clara Schumann, Justinian Tamusuza, André Previn, Valerie Coleman, Ludwig van Beethoven, Francis Poulenc, Joseph Canteloube, Heinrich Molbe, and others.
A firm believer in sharing his passion for music through education, Schuyler frequently works with young musicians through youth orchestra masterclasses, orchestral and chamber music coaching sessions, side-by-side rehearsals and performances, and private lessons. Schuyler has performed educational concerts at public and private schools in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area as a part of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s educational concert series and throughout the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area as a part of the Minnesota Orchestra’s Kinder Konzert series. With over 12 years of teaching experience, Schuyler has given masterclasses at the University of Maryland School of Music and at The Hartt School at the University of Hartford. Additionally, he has taught for The Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra, Academy, OrchKids, and OrchLab programs, and previously served on the bassoon faculty at Baltimore School for the Arts. Schuyler has helped students gain acceptance into Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute, NYO2, regional, and all-state ensembles, and has had students go on to study music at the collegiate level at the Curtis Institute of Music and Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music.
Though he spent much of his childhood years moving around the country from Michigan to Arizona, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Connecticut, Schuyler began his bassoon studies at the age of 12 while living in Wisconsin. Schuyler continued his studies and went on to earn a Bachelor of Music in Bassoon Performance from The Hartt School in 2013, where he was a member of the full scholarship honors chamber music program, Performance 2020. Schuyler then began a master’s degree in orchestral performance at Manhattan School of Music and won an audition a year into his degree at the age of 22 for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. While pursuing his degrees, Schuyler was selected as a bassoon fellowship recipient for the National Repertory Orchestra, New York String Orchestra Seminar, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and National Orchestral Institute. His principal teachers include Marc Goldberg, Roger Nye, Rebecca Noreen, Judith Buttery, James Lotz, and Hunter Thomas.
When he’s not making music, Schuyler enjoys getting into mischief with his great friend and colleague, BSO oboist Michael Lisicky, playing retro video games, and riding his bike. He makes his home in the Lauraville neighborhood of Baltimore with his wife, flutist Megan Natoli and their two cats Wolfie and Berlioz.