Stuart Jackson

Stuart was a choral scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, studying Biological Sciences, before studying singing at the Royal Academy of Music. He won second prizes at both the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition and at the Hugo Wolf Competition in Stuttgart.

Current and future concert highlights include St John Passion with Andrew Manze in Hannover; St Matthew Passion with Christoph Poppen in Cologne; Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard; Mendelssohn Lobgesang with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Paul McCreesh; Martin Le Vin Herbé with the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Reuss and Bruckner Te Deum with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra.

On the opera stage, highlights include High Priest/ Abner/Amalekite/Doeg Saul in his Glyndebourne Festival debut; Don Ottavio Don Giovanni for Stuttgart Opera and Iro Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria for The Royal Opera at the Roundhouse. In the 2018/19 season he will make his debut at English National Opera.

He was a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 2013 and then, in the 2013/14 season, joined the Stuttgart Opera Studio performing the title role in Gluck Orphée et Eurydice, Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, Gastone La Traviata, Abdallo Nabucco and Second Priest Die Zauberflöte. He is currently a Classical Opera Associate Artist with whom he has sung Osroa in JC Bach Adriano in Siria,Lucio Vero in Jommelli Il Vologeso and, in recordings, the title role in Mozart Il Sogno di Scipione and Soliman in Mozart Zaide.