CARL JACKSON MVO - Joint Vice-Chair

Carl Jackson studied as a Junior Exhibitioner at the Royal Academy of Music and at Downing College, Cambridge where he held an organ scholarship. He obtained a postgraduate teaching certificate at Goldsmiths’ College (University of London) before embarking upon a thirty-six-year teaching career from which he retired in July 2018. He has been Director of Music of the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace since 1996 and was appointed MVO in 2012. He is a past ISM section Warden and Regional Councillor, and spent thirteen years as a member of its Members’ Fund’s grant-making committee, three of them as Chair.