Betty Jackson King (Feb 17, 1928 – June 1, 1994) was an American pianist, singer, teacher, choral conductor, and composer.
She began at Wilson Junior College studying under Esther Goetz Gilliland.
She then went to the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University where she earned a bachelor's degree in piano and a master's degree in composition from the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University.
[3][6][1] Here she studied different aspects of music: voice with the highly respected Thelma Waide Brown, composition with Hans Tischler and Karel Jirak, and piano with Saul Dorfman.
[9] King wrote arrangements of spirituals, operas (Saul of Tarsus, My Servant Job), a cantata (Simon of Cyrene) and a requiem.