Catharine Jackson

Violin

DMA (University of Iowa), MM (University of South Carolina), BM (Peabody Conservatory)

Dr. Catharine McClure Jackson has been teaching music in Charlotte, North Carolina for over twenty years and continues to maintain an active private studio. She teaches the violin, viola, and French horn, preparing students for a future full of musical endeavors. Prior to becoming a mother, Catie enjoyed a professional performance career, performing with the Augusta Symphony Orchestra, the South Carolina Philharmonic, the Cedar Rapids Symphony, and the Quad Cities Symphony. In recent years she has been a substitute section violin player for the Wilmington Symphony.

Catie is also the director of music at Ballantyne Presbyterian Church, ARP, where her husband, Kenneth, serves as an elder. Kenneth and Catie have seven children, all of whom play an instrument (or two). Catie continues to perform at church and chamber groups in Charlotte. For the past two years she has traveled to Paris, France to assist with the music ministry for Good Friday and Easter services of the Chapelle de Nesle.

Dr. Jackson has music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Iowa.