The first of the 2021 Organ Concerts on the splendid refurbished Willis organ in the Grand Temple of Freemasons' Hall, London, is to be given by the Director of Music at the Chapel Royal, Carl Jackson, MVO.

This Concert is free and open to the public.

Carl Jackson was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Malcolm Hill and Alan Harverson. He also held organ scholarships at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace and at Downing College, Cambridge where he was a pupil of Peter Hurford.

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 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 CDs. He was appointed MVO in the 2012 New Year Honours list.