Bronx 
Orchestra
Festival
March 26

Dr. Sandra Dackow

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Sandra Dackow holds three degrees from the Eastman School of Music and currently serves as Director of the William Paterson University Symphony Orchestra, NJ , and the Chamber Orchestra at NJ Institute of Technology.  An Aspen Conducting fellow, she was awarded the Silver medal in the 2001 Vakhtang Jordania/New Millennium Conducting Competition in Kharkiv, Ukraine.  Dr. Dackow has published over 120 works for student orchestras and is an author of Alfred’s Orchestra Expressions, Tempo Press’s The Expressive Orchestra,  Expressive Sightreading, and a co-author of the MENC Complete String Guide.   She has appeared as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the US and abroad, including summers at Interlochen, and other music camps. in the US, Ireland and Australia.   Dr. Dackow has served as Music Director of the Ridgewood Symphony, NJ, The Hershey Symphony, PA, and their affiliated youth orchestras.   She is a former President of the International Conductors Guild, an organization serving conductors in more than 30 countries.  In 2009 she was elected a Lowell Mason Fellow by MENC:  The Association for Music Education,  (now NAfME) as well as awarded the Bruno Walter Best Conductor Prize by the Master Academy International Competition in Switzerland.