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Sandra Dackow holds a Bachelor and a Master of Music, as well as the Doctor of Philosophy from the Eastman School of Music. An Aspen Conducting fellow in 2001, she was also awarded the Silver Medal in the 2001 Vakhtang Jordania/New Millennium International Conducting Competition in Kharkov, Ukraine. She is currently serving as Music Director of the Hershey Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania and is a former Music Director of the Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra in New Jersey. Recent guest conducting has included appearances with the Berkshire Symphony, Massachusetts, Missouri Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Butler Symphony, Pennsylvania and Kharkov Philharmonic, Ukraine. This season will see, among others, performances with the Helena Symphony, Montana, Kharkov Philharmonic and the All-Queensland Honors Orchestra in Brisbane, Australia.
A Native of East Paterson (Elmwood Park), New Jersey, Dr. Dackow has conducted bands and orchestras in the schools of Glen Rock and East Brunswick, New Jersey, and served as Supervisor of Music for the Ridgewood NJ public schools. She was a member of the faculty of Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania and has been a visiting faculty member during the summer sessions of the Eastman School of Music, Temple University, Montclair State College NJ, Wichita State University, the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and the Cork School of Music, Ireland. She most recently served on the faculty of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, as director of the University Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble.
An annual ASCAP award winning arranger, Dr. Dackow has generated over seventy works for young orchestras and is active as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician across the nation and Canada, in England, Hong Kong, South Africa and throughout Australia and Ireland. Articles of hers have appeared in major professional journals and she has contributed to or co authored reference books and texts.
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