Sandra Dackow arranger

An ASCAP award winning arranger, Dr. Dackow is active as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician across the nation and Canada, in England, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ukraine, South Africa and throughout Australia and Ireland.

As a renowned music educator, Dr. Dackow has conducted bands and orchestras in the schools of Glen Rock and East Brunswick NJ, and served as Supervisor of Music for the Ridgewood NJ public schools. A former chair of the string department and orchestra director at Slippery Rock University PA, she 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 MA, as director of the University Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble.

Sandra Dackow earned her Bachelor of Music, Master of Music and Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music. She is currently on the music faculty at William Paterson University, serves as Music Director of the Hershey Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania and is a former Music Director of the Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra in New Jersey.