ABOUT

Percussionist Jacqueline Russo has appeared with many established organizations including Ensemble LPR, Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, New York Repertory Orchestra, Circles and Lines, One World Symphony, the Garden State Philharmonic, Make Music New York, Theater in Asylum, and Downtown Music Productions Inc. She has taken part in the NYU Broadway Percussion Seminar/Summit, as well as the So Percussion Summer Institute at Princeton University.  In the spring of 2010 Jacqueline was invited to play in the NYU Takemitsu Project at Merkin Concert Hall. She premiered It's Mutual, for percussion trio and marimba soloist, by Conrad Winslow at a Circles and Lines event hosted at Le Poisson Rouge in May of 2010. Jacqueline has been the resident percussionist for First Presbyterian Church in New York City since September of 2010, and began a drumming club at Lower Manhattan Community Middle School 896 in March 2012.

During the winter of 2012, Jacqueline joined the all-girl pop-rock band, SUPERCUTE!. The band has been playing consistently at a variety of clubs both in Manhattan and Brooklyn including the Living Room, Littlefield, 285 Kent, Public Assembly, the Bell House, and 72 Warren. SUPERCUTE! is set to release their first album in Early 2013.

Jacqueline co-founded PULSE New Music (PULSE) in December 2010, an organization geared towards the growth of percussion in American Chamber Music. PULSE’s inaugural concert took place at Merkin Concert Hall on April of 2011. PULSE had three separate appearances in the Make Music New York festival in June 2011. Jacqueline held the position of both production manager and co-artistic director for the extent of PULSE’s duration.

Jacqueline completed her Bachelor of Music Degree in Classical Percussion Performance at NYU Steinhardt in May of 2011, working under professors Jonathan Haas, Simon Boyar, and Josh Quillen of So Percussion.  She has also studied with James Saporito and Kory Grossman. Before going to NYU, she attended the Juilliard Pre-College. 

Miss Russo recently returned from a tour of China with the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra under the direction of Leon Botstein. Jacqueline lives in Manhattan's Lower East Side and continues to actively collaborate with musicians and composers in and around the tri-state area.