Richard Jackson

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Richard trained at King's College Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has sung opera for ENO, Opera North, Glyndebourne, Almeida Opera and the Monnaie in Brussels. He is a founder-member of the Songmakers' Almanac. He has worked with the piano-accompanists Gerald Moore, Geoffrey Parsons, Roger Vignoles and Graham Johnson. His concert appearances have taken him to festivals in Edinburgh and Aldeburgh, and abroad to the USA, Hong Kong, Germany, Spain etc. He collaborated with Jonathan Miller in the staging of Bach’s St Matthew Passion; with Rostropovich in Eugene Onegin; and with Gian-Carlo Menotti in his opera Maria Golovin. Richard has made numerous TV, radio and CD recordings. He is a Professor at GSMD, RAM and TCM, and has given master classes in Australia and Hong Kong. He has served twice on the jury of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards.