Paul Jackson

Song Recital
2025-06-05 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | St Mary’s Church, St Mary's Street, Bungay, Suffolk, NR35 1AX
A lunchtime concert, sung by Alistair Bamford and accompanied by Paul Jackson, featuring Let Us Garlands Bring by Gerald Finzi, Trois Mélodies sur des poèmes de Paul Verlaine by Claude Debussy, Songs for Ariel by Michael Tippett, and Dank by Arnold Schönberg.

New Palace Opera: Peter Grimes
2025-06-15 18:30 - 21:30 | St John’s Waterloo, Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8TY
New Palace Opera, conducted by Michael Thorne, presents a concert performance of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes.

St Augustine's Singers: Rejoice in the Lamb
2025-06-28 18:00 - 19:00 | St Augustine’s Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge
The St Augustine’s Singers’ summer concert features Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, a setting for soloists, choir and organ of poems by the eighteenth-century English poet, Christopher Smart, together with E. J. Moeran’s exquisitely beautiful Songs of Springtime, for unaccompanied chorus.

Free admission with retiring collection.

St Augustine’s Singers: Rejoice in the Lamb
2025-06-29 11:45 - 12:30 | All Saints’ Church, Landbeach, Green End, Landebeach, CB25 9FD

Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra: The Triumph of Time and Truth
2025-07-06 18:00 - 19:30 | All Saints’ Church, Church Way, Haslingfield, CB23 1JF
Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Paul Jackson, perform an abridged and reimagined version of Handel’s final oratorio, The Triumph of Time and Truth.

Mifune Tsuji Trio
2025-09-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Downing Place URC, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EL
Renowned violinist Mifune Tsuji, pianist Paul Jackson and saxophonist Jin Theriault perform as a unique trio, playing solo and trio pieces from around the world. The three musicians have been performing together since 2012. The programme features works by the Argentinian tango composer, Astor Piazzolla, including Libertango, Chau Paris, Resurrección del Angel, Tango Etudes, and Concerto for Quintet. Also included is Percy Grainger’s intensely lyrical Colonial Song.

Vltava: on the Vltava
2025-09-20 21:00 - 22:00 | MS Elbe Princesse, Vltava, Czech Republic
Paul Jackson and Emilie Capulet perform a programme of water-themed music for piano duet, including Schibert’s Fantasy in F minor, and Debussy’s Petite Suite. Bedřich Smetana’s mighty ‘Vltava’, from Má Vlast, is performed while cruising on the Vltava!

Vltava: Pictures of Bohemia
2025-09-22 21:00 - 22:00 | MS Elbe Princesse, Vltava, Czech Republic
Paul Jackson performs a programme of Bohemian piano music, including Antonín Dvořák’s ‘Serenade’, ‘Tittle-Tattle’, ‘At the Hero’s Grave’, and ‘On the Holy Mount’ from Poetic Tone Pictures, op. 85, Bedřich Smetana’s ‘Friendly Landscape’, from Sketches, op. 5, no. 3, Bohuslav Martinů’s ‘Columbine Dances’, from Puppets, book I, Leoš Janáček’s ‘The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away’, from On an Overgrown Path, Miloslav Kabeláč’s Preludio ostinato, and Peter Eben’s Bells Before the Lights Go Out.

Vltava: Dances and Legends
2025-09-25 10:45 - 11:10 | Antonín Dvořák Museum, Ke Karlovu 20, Prague, Czech Republic
Paul Jackson and Emilie Capulet give a recital of piano duet music by Dvořák in the atmospheric surroundings of the Antonín Dvořák Museum in Prague. The programme includes Slavonic Dances nos. 6, 7, and 8, and Legends, nos. 1 and 3.

Cambridge Szeged Society: Music by Seiber and Zemlinksy
2025-10-11 18:00 - 19:30 | St Catherine’s College Chapel, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RL
Presented by the Cambridge Szeged Society, clarinettist Simon Kelly, cellist Veronica Henderson, and pianist Paul Jackson present a concert to mark the 120th anniversary year of the birth of the Hungarian-born British composer Mátyás Seiber. The concert features Seiber’s Sarabande and Gigue, Andantino Pastorale, Introduction and Allegro, and Phantasy, together with Alexander Zemlinsky’s Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, op. 3.

St Augustine's Singers: the little match girl passion
2025-11-22 18:00 - 19:00 | St Augustine’s Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge
The St Augustine’s Singers, conducted by Paul Jackson, present a performance of David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning choral work, the little match girl passion. Based on Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Match Girl, Lang’s work was described in 2019 by The Guardian critic Andrew Clements as ‘one of the most original vocal works of recent times.’

Also included in the concert is the first performance of Andrew Hugill’s Solemn Melos, settings of three poems by Anthony Ehtherin.

St Augustine's Singers: Service
2025-11-23 09:00 - 10:30 | St Augustine’s Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge
The St Augustine’s Singers perform as part of the regular Sunday service at St Augustine’s Church.

St Augustine's Singers: Christmas at Great St Mary's
2025-12-06 15:00 - 16:00 | Great St Mary’s, Senate House Hill, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 3PQ, United Kingdom
Christmas music, carols and solos by the St Augustine’s Singers, conducted by Audrey Caldwell, as part of the annual Christmas Carol Service in aid of the Addenbrooke’s Kidney Patients Association.

Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra: Diabelli Pastoral Mass
2025-12-06 19:30 - 21:30 | All Saints’ Church, Church Way, Haslingfield, CB23 1JF
Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Paul Jackson, perform Anton Diabelli’s rarely heard, but beautifully bucolic, Pastoral Mass in F major. The concert also includes ten orchestral versions of well-known Schubert songs in arrangements by Liszt, Brahms, Reger, Schönberg, and Britten.

St Augustine's Singers: Christmas Concert
2025-12-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, Cambridge
Christmas music, carols and solos by the St Augustine’s Singers, conducted by Paul Jackson, at Cambridge’s Michaelhouse Centre.

St Augustine's Singers: Christmas Carol Service
2025-12-20 16:00 - 17:00 | St Augustine’s Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge
The St Augustine’s Singers perform a seasonal programme as part of the annual St Augustine’s Church Christmas Carol Service.

Newtown Ensemble: Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2
2026-01-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Stockbridge Parish Church, 7b Saxe Coburg Street, Edinburgh, EH3 5BN, United Kingdom
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is performed by Paul Jackson, with the Newtown Ensemble, conducted by Michael Thorne.

Programme:

Hindemith – Mathis der MalerShostakovich – Piano Concerto No. 2 (soloist Paul Jackson)Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 8

St Augustine's Singers and Players: Dixit Dominus
2026-03-14 18:00 - 19:00 | St Augustine’s Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge
The St Augustine’s Singers and Players, conducted by Paul Jackson, present two Baroque masterpieces for chorus and instruments.

The concert opens with Francesco Durante’s short and compact Magnificat, one of the most significant settings of the text in cantata form by a composer later described as ‘the greatest harmonist of Italy, indeed of the world’. This is followed by George Frideric Handel’s setting of Dixit Dominus, written when the composer was only twenty-two years old. A thrilling and virtuosic work for five-part chorus, soloists and orchestra, Dixit Dominus bursts with rhythmic and melodic invention and vitality.

Admission to the concert is free, with a retiring collection in aid of church funds.

Percy Grainger Society Talk: GlossGlide
2026-03-19 20:00 - 21:00 | Online via Zoom
GlossGlide is an exploratory sound project inspired by the ideas, materials, and creative ethos of Percy Grainger. It is the work of an autistic practitioner, developed through sustained individual practice and reflection.

The project brings together sound, interaction, and accessibility to explore what it might mean to engage with musical materials through continuous change, attention, and play.

GlossGlide is deliberately experimental. It is concerned as much with process as with product, and with creating conditions for listening and interaction that are open-ended, calm, and low-pressure. Users are not asked to achieve anything, and are free to pause, repeat, drift, or leave at any point.

Join host Paul Jackson, with GlossGlide developer Andrew Hugill, as they explore the new site, its design philosophy, and the ways in which it is informed by Grainger’s radical approach to music making and music composition.

Information and booking: https://www.percygrainger.org/event-6559312

Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra: Messiah
2026-03-21 19:30 - 21:30 | All Saints’ Church, Church Way, Haslingfield, CB23 1JF
Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Paul Jackson, perform Handel’s most well-known oratorio, Messiah.

Soprano: Rachel Godsill

Alto: Ute Leptit-Clare

Tenor: Gary Rushton

Bass: Alistair Bamford

St Augustine's Singers: Meditation Event
2026-04-03 12:00 - 13:00 | St Augustine’s Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge
A Good Friday Meditation Event, with music sung by St Augustine’s Singers, conducted by Paul Jackson.

St Augustine's Singers: Easter Service
2026-04-05 09:30 - 11:00 | St Augustine’s Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge
An Easter Communion Service, with music sung by St Augustine’s Singers, conducted by Paul Jackson.

Help2Ukraine: Messiah
2026-04-06 18:00 - 20:00 | St Edmund’s Church, 5 Bartholomew Green, Southwold, Suffolk, IP18 6JA
Paul Jackson conducts a special charity concert performance of Handel’s Messiah, in aid of Help2Ukraine (Suffolk) Ambulances for Ukraine.

In 2024 and 2025, Help2Ukraine (Suffolk) sent four ambulances fully equipped with life-saving supplies to Lviv, as part of a convoy of eight. In 2026, we will do the same. There is an urgent need to continue to send ambulances to Ukraine. It is not about politics but life and death. It often feels as though there is nothing we can do to make the world a better place, but supporting this cause is something you can do to make a direct and positive difference.

Each year our successful fund-raising has included donations from private individuals, an auction, a cake & coffee morning, a dog show, mini-fete and sponsored walk. In 2026, in addition to having another dog show in May, this April we are holding a special concert.

The concert will be based on a Come-and-Sing rehearsal and performance of highlights from Handel’s masterpiece Messiah. This will be a joyous as well as a thought-provoking event, bringing together singers from choral societies across East Anglia alongside professional singers, instrumentalists and actors. There will be readings to help link the music, and to place it in the context of vulnerability and war, peace and reflection. It is neither a religious nor a political event, but takes the spirit of Messiah and invites us all to make a difference.

The rehearsal is from 2pm to 5pm, and the performance starts at 6pm.

The cost will be £20 for singers, and £25 for the audience (£10 under-21s). There will be refreshments between rehearsal and concert, and in the interval.

Registration and tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/help2ukraine/t-plqaoln

New Palace Opera: Bluebeard's Castle
2026-04-22 13:00 - 14:00 | St Peter’s Church, St Peter's St, St Albans, AL1 3HG
New Palace Opera performs Béla Bartók’s one-act opera, Bluebeard’s Castle, in a new concert arrangement by Jonathan Finney.

In his interpretation of the pan-European folk-tale, Belá Bartók reveals the emotional abyss in this gloomy psychological thriller by presenting the seven chambers within Bluebeard’s castle/mind, symbolising his obsessions, with powerfully expressive pictorial and psychological music. While thrillingly sustaining the emotional high tension in this one-act opera, Bartók lays bare the inner tragedy of the doomed relationship between Judith and Bluebeard.

This performance, in English, is performed in the version for chamber orchestra by the co-director of New Palace Opera, Jonathan Finney. This is the latest of his arrangements for smaller orchestras, which include The Marriage of Figaro, Hansel and Gretel, La navaraisse [Massenet] and Oedipus Rex, all for Palace Opera and Der fliegende Holländer and Die Meistersinger for Fulham Opera.

Cast

Duke Bluebeard, Pauls Putnins

Judith, Callie Gaston

New Palace Opera Chamber Orchestra

Conductor, Michael Thorne

Percy Grainger Society Talk: Grainger the Educator
2026-05-14 21:00 - 22:00 | Online via Zoom
This meeting continues the Percy Grainger Society’s 2025–26 members’ meeting series, Grainger the Educator, a celebration of Percy Grainger’s often overlooked yet enduring influence as a teacher and educator. This talk, given by Percy Grainger Society President, Paul Jackson, considers Grainger’s lecture series for New York University, and for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, given in the 1930s.

St Augusine's Singers: Music from the Movies
2026-06-21 18:00 - 19:00
The St Augustine’s Singers, conducted by Paul Jackson, present a programme of choral music from and for the movies. The concert includes Michel Legrand’s How Do You Keep the Music Playing, and The Windmills of Your Mind, JS Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei, and music by Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten.

Haslingfield Choir: Songs and Sonnets
2026-07-04 18:00 - 20:00 | All Saints’ Church, Church Way, Haslingfield, CB23 1JF
Haslingfield Choir, conducted by Paul Jackson, present a programme of settings of Shakespeare, including George Shearing’s Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare, choral music by Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wood, and Bob Chilcott, and music for voice and piano by Gerald Finzi and Michael Tippett. The evening also features readings given by members of the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival.

St Augustine's Singers: Music from the Movies
2026-07-05 18:00 - 19:00 | St Augustine’s Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge

New Palace Opera: Káťa Kabanová
2026-07-19 18:30 - 21:00 | St John’s Church, Waterloo, London, SE1 8TY
New Palace Opera, conducted by Michael Thorne, present a concert performance of Leoš Janáček’s opera, Káťa Kabanová.

This story of one woman’s bid for escape from her suffocating community reflects the composer’s unrequited love for a woman resembling Katya herself. Janáček once wrote, “Katya’s suffering is my own,” bringing forth from the Czech composer a work of lacerating intensity, compelling tension and wondrous lyricism.

This concert performance will be sung in English, with translation by Norman Tucker.

www.newpalaceopera.com/katya-kabanova

Saffron Opera Group: Dialogues des Carmélites
2026-09-13 14:30 - 17:00 | Saffron Hall, Audley End Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 4UH
Saffron Opera Group, conducted by Michael Thorne, perform a concert version of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites.
