Yvette Jackson
Composer
U.S.A.
Yvette Janine Jackson is a composer, performer, and installation artist who draws on her background in theatrical sound design to create “radio operas,” an aesthetic of narrative soundscape composition described by The Guardian as “immersive non-visual films.”
Jackson’s electroacoustic, chamber, and orchestral music has been presented internationally at venues and festivals including Carnegie Hall, the Venice Music Biennale, the Borealis Festival, and ZKM | Center for Art and Media. She has received commissions from institutions including the American Composers Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Cashmere Radio for Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Her permanent installations Underground (Codes) and Destination Freedom can be experienced at Wave Farm and the International African American Museum.
Jackson is a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2025) and the Giga-Hertz Production Award (2021), granted by ZKM and SWR Experimentalstudio to support innovation in electronic music. She is the director of HUSEAC (Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition).
Works
Excerpts:
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Title | Instrumentation | Duration | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
Equal & Opposite | For countertenor, violin, violoncello | ~9' | 2026 |
T-Minus (A Radio Opera) | For large ensemble and electronics | 50' | 2023 |
Hello, Tomorrow! | For orchestra and electronics | 12' | 2022 |
Fear Is Their Alibi | Musique concrète (bassoon, soprano voice) | 6' | 2021 |
Deliberate (Afraid of Nothing) | For percussion and electronics | 12' | 2019 |