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Biography

Jesénia Jackson is a composer, songwriter, and orchestrator. Jesénia has served as the assistant to the orchestrator on the Off Broadway musical,TREVOR, and was afforded the opportunity to arrange strings for Dreamgirls’ “And I Am Telling You” for The Broadway Sitzprobe spearheaded by Seth Rudetsky. Her concert piece, STAGES (I Movement) has been performed by The PHACE Ensemble in Vienna, Austria. Her most recent film scores include AJ’s Story, The Bell Affair, and Sonny’s Blues (New York Shorts International Film Festival). As a songwriter, Jesénia released her first EP, Introducing Jesénia Jackson, in June 2022.

Jesénia has served as the Women In Music Washington, D.C. Chapter Chair (2021-2023), member of the New York Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL), Alliance for Women Film Composers (AWFC), and piano & vocal instructor at The International School of Music.  She is currently the Lower School Music Teacher at Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York City. She has been awarded Honorary Member of Tau Beta Sigma Music Fraternity and nominee for the DC Wammies Best Advocacy Award.
 

 Jesénia holds a Master of Music degree in Screen Scoring from New York University (2020) and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from  Spelman College (2018).