British and Irish tenor Richard Jackson graduated with Distinction from the MMus course in Vocal Performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Richard has performed as La peinture in Charpentier’s Les arts florissants (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire), as Mercury in John Weldon’s The Judgment of Paris (Benslow Music), as the Parpignol in La Boheme (North Wales Opera) and as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (North Wales Opera). At Drottningholm Palace Theatre he has performed as Bajazet and Lurcanio in scenes from Handel’s Tamerlano and Ariodante respectively and for North Wales Opera he has performed as Tamino in scenes from Die Zauberflöte. Richard has sung in the Opera Holland Park Chorus for two seasons performing in productions of Puccini’s Tosca and Edgar and Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. His other chorus experience includes Billy Budd for New Palace Opera. Richard looks forward to rejoining North Wales Opera to perform as Pylade, Jaquino and Nanki-Poo in scenes from Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, Beethoven’s Fidelio and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado respectively and to performing the role of Spoletta in Puccini’s Tosca with the same company.

On the concert platform Richard has performed as a soloist with choirs and choral societies. His oratorio experience includes Handel’s Messiah, the title role in Handel’s Samson, Mozart’s Requiem and Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle.

Richard was a member of the National Youth Choir of Scotland as a teenager and was the recipient of a St Andrew’s Chorus Scholarship at university. He went on to sing for two years as a choral scholar in the CBSO Chorus, performing at the BBC Proms and in venues such as Birmingham’s Symphony Hall and the Elbphilharmonie. Richard has also sung with the BBC Proms Youth Choir.

Richard has been taught by Anthony Roden, Christopher Turner and Robert Dean. He has been coached by Julian Perkins, Jeffrey Skidmore and Paul Wingfield among others. He has participated in a masterclass with George Petrou in Stockholm and in a Les Arts Florissants masterclass led by Paul Agnew in Thiré, France. Prior to commencing his studies at the conservatoire, Richard gained a Modern History degree from the University of St Andrews.