Stuart jackson

Tenor Stuart Jackson amassed a long record of performances in opera, choral music, and vocal music by the time he had reached his early 30s. He was signed to the Orchid Classics label and issued his debut solo album, Flax and Fire, in 2020. Jackson was born around 1986. His father was an actor and singer, and he enjoyed singing from childhood. When he entered Christ Church College, Oxford, he won a place in the school's famous choir, but his major field of study was biological sciences. Before graduating from Oxford in 2008, he took a singing course that inspired him to attempt a solo singing career, and he applied and was accepted at the Royal Academy of Music in London. There, he studied with Ryland Davies, completing his studies in 2013. By that time, Jackson had already begun to make a splash. In 2011, he took second prize as the youngest finalist at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition in London. He was accompanied by pianist Jocelyn Freeman, who has become his regular performing partner in recital. Designation as Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne Festival Opera that year and a stint at the Stuttgart Opera Studio during the 2013-2014 season (where he sang Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni) propelled Jackson's career forward. He has sung recitals at such prestigious venues as Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, and St. John’s Smith Square, London. His operatic career has encompassed a variety of roles, including Bénédict in Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict, but has focused on Handel, Purcell, and other Baroque composers. In the 2017-2018 season, he made his debut at the Royal Opera House in London, singing the role of Iro in Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria. Jackson's choral and orchestral appearances have included those with both early music ensembles and modern orchestras. He has appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Huddersfield Choral Society, and the Royal Northern Sinfonia, among other groups. Jackson can be found on several recordings, making his debut in 2015 on the Academy of Ancient Music's recording of Bach's St. Matthew Passion under conductor and keyboardist Richard Egarr. In 2016 and 2017, he was featured on a pair of Mozart opera recordings (Zaide and Il sogno di Scipione) by The Classical Opera. Jackson's solo debut, Flax and Fire, was recorded with Freeman and offered a varied program containing songs of Liszt, Britten, Schumann, and William Denis Browne. Jackson returned in 2021 as a tenor soloist on a recording of Handel's Brockes-Passion, HWV 48, with the early music group Arcangelo.
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