British and Irish tenor Richard Jackson is a Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) Emerging Artist 2025/ 2026. He looks forward to performing several roles in the UK premiere of Mademoiselle Duval’s Les Caractères de l’Amour at the festival in October.

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, Stockholm he has performed as Bajazet and Lurcanio in scenes from Handel’s Tamerlano and Ariodante respectively. For North Wales Opera Richard has performed in staged scenes as Pylade (Iphigénie en Tauride), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Jaquino (Fidelio) and Nanki-Poo (The Mikado). He has sung in the Opera Holland Park Chorus for two seasons performing in productions of Tosca and Edgar and The Flying Dutchman. Richard’s other chorus experience includes Billy Budd for New Palace Opera.

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 Hamburg’s 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 Stephen Barlow 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. Richard looks forward to participating in a masterclass with Sophie Daneman as part of the BREMF Emerging Artist Scheme. He graduated with Distinction from the Mmus course in Vocal Performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Prior to commencing his studies at the conservatoire, Richard gained a Modern History degree from the University of St Andrews.