Sir Nicholas Jackson
MA
Honorary Fellow
Sir Nicholas Jackson is an organist, harpsichordist and composer.
He was an Organ Scholar at Wadham College, Oxford and a studied the organ and harpsichord at the Royal Academy of Music. He made his début in 1964 at Wigmore Hall, performing harpsichord concertos, and went on to hold the position of Organist at St James’s Piccadilly and St Lawrence Jewry-next-Guildhall, in London. In 1977 he became Organist and Master of the Choristers at St David’s Cathedral in Wales, where he remained until 1984. In 1987 he became Director of the Bach Festival at the Santes Creus monastery in Spain, where he re-formed his own chamber orchestra, the Concertante of London. His first published composition, Mass for a Saint’s Day, was recorded by the choir of Winchester Cathedral and continues to be sung all over the English-speaking world.
He is the grandson on Sir T.G. Jackson, the architect of much of Hertford College.