Carl Jackson (organist)

Carl Anthony Jackson MVO (born 1958) is a British organist and the director of music at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court.

His mother, originally from Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica, was a magistrate and nursing education tutor.

[3] He attended Harrow County School for Boys between 1970 and 1977,[4] which he combined with studies as a Junior Exhibitioner at the Royal Academy of Music.

After a gap-year at the Academy, he then read music at Downing College, Cambridge where he served as organ scholar between 1978 and 1981.

He took over as director of music at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court in 1996, following the death of Gordon Reynolds the previous year.