The Anglo-French conductor and pianist David Jackson is a graduate of the University of Durham and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow.  He is a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow and an Italian Cultural Institute Fellow, and between 2007-8 was a member of the Academy of the Festival d’Aix en Provence.

Noted for his « dynamic and rigorous » direction, David is a choral director and accompanist for the Chœur de l’Orchestre de Paris at the Philharmonie de Paris and choral director for the Maîtrise des Hauts de Seine, children’s choir of the Opéra de Paris, at La Seine Musicale.  Since 2010 he has held the post of assistant director at the Festival Lyrique International de Belle-Ile en Mer where he has directed performances of La Petite Messe Solennelle (Rossini), Gloria (Vivaldi), Missa Solemnis (Mozart).  In 2020 he will conduct performances of Schubert’s Mass in A flat major, and continue his direction of the Young Artists of the Festival. In 2018 David Jackson conducted Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in a production for the Conservatoire de Versailles.

David Jackson’s work as a vocal coach has seen him work for Cologne Opera, Germany (2007-9) and for the choir of La Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris (2014-19).  Since 2015 he coaches vocal interpretation at the Conservatoire de Versailles.

David Jackson is artistic director of Ensemble 1904, a chamber ensemble dedicated to twentieth century Franco-British repertoire.  The critically acclaimed debut recording of Ensemble 1904 “ Poldowski reimagined” (Resonus Classics) features 22 mélodies of the female composer Poldowski in chamber orchestrations written by David Jackson, with the soprano Jazmin Black-Grollemund.  Ensemble 1904 performs in France and abroad.

As a composer for the theatre and opera, he composed the musique de scène for Medée (stage direction Jean-Yves Ruf) for Dijon Opera, and for Twelfth Night (stage direction Bérangère Jannelle) a production in association with Théâtre de la Ville, Paris.