Dr. Larisa Jackson teaches at the University of Houston
from 2001 at the Moores School of Music and from 2006 at the Downtown campus.
Her courses include music history surveys (Medieval to 20th Century), courses
on Russian music of the 19th and 20th century, opera, symphonic music, music
theory, and piano. Fully dedicated to teaching core curriculum and standard
courses in music history and theory, Dr. Jackson has also designed and taught
special topic seminars on Russian music including "Analysis of Russian
Masterpieces," "Shostakovich and Prokofiev," "Tchaikovsky
and the Russian Five" and opera.
Her interests range from 19th-century music and Russian
music of the 19th and 20th century to the history of music theory and
publications on Tchaikovsky, Russian music, and 19th-century tonal theory can
be found in Journal of American Liszt Society, St. Petersburg Conservatory
International Conference Journal and Current Musicology. Larisa Jackson has
given pre-concert lectures in Lincoln Center, Houston Symphony, Cullen Theater
and written program notes for Alice Tully Concert Hall at Lincoln Center and
the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra in New York City. Some of her recent
activity includes judging the VIth Elena Obraztsova Competition of Young
Singers in St. Petersburg in 2016, IXth Rimsky-Korsakov International
Competition of Young Opera Singers in Russia in 2015, presenting a lecture on
Rimsky-Korsakov’s harmonic theory at the IMS’s International Symposium
dedicated to the 150th Anniversary of the St. Petersburg’s Conservatory in
2012. Dr. Jackson currently works on the book exploring the relationship of
Tchaikovsky and his patron Nadejda von Meck. Since 2002 Dr. Jackson has founded
and managed two classical music festivals in Europe, Orfeo Music Festival and
Schlern International Music Festival.
Larisa Jackson studied at the Musorgsky Music College in
St. Petersburg, Russia and completed her M. A., M. Phil., and Ph. D. at
Columbia University in New York City where she was a recipient of numerous
awards including Mellon Fellowship and Columbia University President’s Fellowship.
