Meet the Musicians

Brian Jackson

Principal Pops Conductor

Brian Jackson holds a Master of Arts in Music Theory, History and Composition from Oxford University. In 1965 he was the youngest ever Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in London, England. After three years as a Studio Manager with the British Broadcasting Corporation, he emigrated to Canada in 1968 and began his conducting career spanning the next 30 years.

Twice winner of the Heinz Ungar award for conductors, he studied with Hans Swarovski in Vienna and with Richard Lert in Los Angeles. Also a recipient of a Canada Council grant, he spent a year studying in Germany and then conducted opera throughout German speaking Europe.

Currently Principal Pops Conductor of Orchestra London Canada, the Victoria Symphony and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Jackson has conducted all major orchestras in Canada and lead orchestras in the United States and South America.

For ten years, he was Music Director of the Kingston Symphony and Choral Society. In the last 3 years Brian has returned to his first love, that of playing the piano. He writes and arranges his own pops shows, plays and conducts piano concertos, and is composing again. His first musical Ernest played to sold out houses in Peterborough, and the Theatre Guild commissioned him to write a musical for them, which was produced in 1996. His second musical Wallis had its world premier in Kitchener this August.

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