Dr. Sean Jackson

Organist and pianist Dr. Sean Jackson is a Doctoral graduate of The Juilliard School in New York where he also received his Master of Music degree in 1999 under the tutelage of Gerre Hancock.

A native of the beautiful island of Barbados in the Caribbean, Dr. Jackson left his homeland in 1992 to pursue a Bachelor of Music degree at the Royal College of Music in London. Since that time he has performed in other West Indian islands, the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Germany, Taiwan, Canada, and the United States of America.

Dr. Jackson began his musical studies at the age of five and by the age of eleven had won his first gold medal in his country's National Independence Festival of the Creative Arts. Subsequently awarded the National Youth Award from the Barbados government, Dr. Jackson has gone on to receive numerous prizes internationally including the Parratt, Walford Davies, and Geoffrey Tankard organ prizes and the Douglas Whittaker Chamber Music Prize, all at the Royal College of Music. Since entering The Juilliard School in 1996, he has been the recipient of the A.H. Kuhn Memorial Scholarship, the 1999 William Schumann Prize, and the C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellowship.

In October 2000, Sean won an organ competition at The Juilliard School and subsequently performed Stephen Paulus's Organ Concerto with the Juilliard Symphony at Alice Tully Hall. He was featured again with the Juilliard Symphony at Lincoln Center in November 2003 with a performance of the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony. Other notable appearances include a performance as guest organist with the New York Youth Symphony in Carnegie Hall.

Sean was a student of John Weaver during the doctorate and he has also studied piano with Jacob Lateiner. He spent six years as Assistant Organist at Trinity Episcopal Church on Wall Street, New York, where he recorded with the Trinity Choir on the Naxos label. In August 2004 Sean began his duties as Director of Music at St. John's Episcopal Church in Stamford, Connecticut where he recently launched his debut organ recording entitled Sean Jackson Plays Organ Favorites: Volume I.