NICHOLAS JACKSON – formerly Organist & Master of the Choristers at St Davids Cathedral, has also been Organist of two of London’s most famous churches – St James’s Piccadilly and St Lawrence Jewry-next-Guildhall.

He is known internationally as an organ recitalist, harpsichordist and composer, making frequent concert tours of Europe, including Croatia, and the U.S.A. He has played at Notre Dame, Paris, Chartres, at the Teatro Real, Madrid and in the Granada Festival. He has given recitals in London at the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and a ‘Celebrity Recital’ at St Paul’s Cathedral. He has made several CD recordings.

Nicholas Jackson made his debut as a harpsichordist at the Wigmore Hall playing five Harpsichord Concertos by Bach with his own Chamber Orchestra the Concertante of London, which recorded for R.C.A. and often performed with Nicholas Jackson as soloist at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as well as making annual concert tours of Spain.

Concertante of London was reformed as a Baroque Ensemble in 2002 with the cream of London’s young musicians playing on baroque instruments. Their recent CD (SOMMCD 077) of Nicholas Jackson’s new realisation of Bach’s ‘Musical Offering’, together with the first CD recording of Gustav Leonhardt’s reconstruction of Bach’s incomplete Harpsichord Concerto No 8 was released in 2009. Since 2004 Concertante have annually been engaged by the ‘Royal Palaces’ to play at London’s Banqueting House, Whitehall and have been engaged to play there again for the seventh consecutive year in 2010. On 8 February 2009 they played for The London Chamber Music Society at King’s Place, London’s newest Concert Hall.

As a composer, Nicholas Jackson had an initial success with his still popular ‘Mass for a Saint’s Day’ (originally published by Boosey & Hawkes and recorded by Winchester Cathedral for Decca). This is also included on the new NAXOS CD that has just been released of his Choral Music sung by the Rodolfus Choir at Eton College Chapel. In 2009 he wrote his ‘Four Temperaments’ (a Piano Concertino) when he was made guest composer for the ‘Split Society of contemporary Music’, which was performed in Dioclesion’s Palace at Split. His music is written in a modern-romantic idiom unashamedly admitting to the influences of Langlais, Durufle and Messiaen. Nicholas Jackson has recorded two CDs of his own Organ Music (at Chartres Cathedral for NAXOS & in Paris for HERALD) He has also composed an Opera – ‘The Reluctant Highwayman’ which was produced at Broomhill 1995.

Sir Nicholas Jackson is an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford and Hon Patron of the College Music Society.