Carl Jackson
Carl Jackson was born in London and studied as a Junior Exhibitioner at The Royal Academy of Music. He also held organ scholarships at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace and at Downing College, Cambridge where he was pupil of Peter Hurford. He obtained a Postgraduate teaching certificate at Goldsmiths’ College (University of London) before embarking upon a 36 year teaching career in both state and independent sectors, retiring in 2018.
He has held positions at Croydon Parish Church (now Croydon Minster) and St Peter’s, Eaton Square, and has been Director of Music at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace since 1996. He has appeared regularly on television with its choir and features with them on CD’s. The Queen appointed him MVO in 2012.
He has served as trustee of music charities for almost 30 years and is a past Section Warden and Regional Councillor for the Incorporated Society of Musicians, spending 13 years as a member of its Members’ Fund’s grant making committee – three of them as its Chair. He is a Court Assistant of the Musicians’ Company and one of the volunteers who assists in the arrangements of its outreach programme.