I am a two-time Emmy Award-winning composer, producer, and Juno Award-winning jazz pianist and educator. As a composer, I specialize in writing, arranging, and producing memorable, custom-made music for t.v., film & other media. I consider myself an "artistic problem solver": I strive to get to the essential conceptual truth of what the client is looking for - and to express it in a creative and supportive way. [READ MORE] or [BIO]

Academic Excellence award at Hunter...

May 23, 2016 / D.D. Jackson

With Annette Insdorf (to my left) and Jennifer Raab, the President of Hunter College.

Excited and honored to have just won the Hunter College 2016 Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching (part-time). Among those pictured in this photo from tonight's reception: to my left is Annette Insdorf (whose family generously sponsors the award in memory of her mother, Cecile Insdorf), plus Hunter's President Jennifer Raab. There but not pictured: my beautiful wife Elizabeth Jackson, who attended with me :-)).