G E O R G E J A C K S O N – Conductor London-born George Jackson came to international attention after making his Vienna Musikverein debut with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra in June 2013, conducting the Austrian premiere of Michael Jarrells Ombres. In 2015 he was awarded the Aspen Conducting Prize. He was Assistant Conductor of the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra, which he has regularly conducted since 2010, and made his Vienna Konzerthaus debut conducting Ensemble Platypus at the Marathon V Festival for Young Contemporary Music. In 2010, George founded the Vienna-based Speculum Musicae Opera Company, conducting new productions of Pergolesis La serva padrona and Charpentiers David et Jonathas. He has also conducted opera performances in concert version with the Pro Arte Orchestra Vienna (Die Zauberflöte, Der Freischütz, La traviata, Fidelio, Turandot, Der fliegende Holländer and La bohème). Highlights of past seasons include debuts in the Czech Republic (West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra, Karlovy Vary), Poland Balti Philharoi, Gdańsk, Austria Viea Chaer Orhestra, Geray (Jena Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus) and Romania (Oltenia State Philharmonic Orchestra, Craiova), as well as his New York City debut with the Manhattan School of Music Orchestra in February 2013. He participated in international master classes, where his teachers included Bernard Haitink, Michael Tilson Thomas, Robert Spano, Kurt Masur and David Robertson. An alumnus of the conservatories of Vienna (with Mark Stringer), Weimar (with Nicolás Pasquet), and Trinity College Dublin (studying musicology), George Jackson furthered his studies at the Lucerne Festival Academy, the Bayreuth Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival, where he won the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize and the David A. Karetsky Memorial Fellowship. He has also conducted at Dartington Festival (UK), Atlantic Music Festival (Portland, Maine), and St. Magnus Festival (Orkney). A prizewinner at the 2012 Jeunesses Musicales Conducting Competition in Bucarest, he has also received scholarships from the Janeczek Foundation, Irish Arts Council, Richard Wagner Foundation, and the Roderick Brydon Memorial Trust. LATEST PERFORMANCES: Pagliacci and L’impresario delle Canarie at Kammeroper Frankfurt Così fan tutte in London, Holland Park Opera; Wozzeck at Theater an der Wien; symphonic concerts with Orchestre de Paris, London Symphony, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Orchestre Régional de Normandie; immer weiter! by Irene Galindo Quero and Jesse Broekman at Staatsoper Hamburg; A campo abierto at Operadhoy Madrid. FORTHCOMING PROJECTS: symphonic concerts with Orchestre de Paris, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National Montpellier, Winston-Salem Symphony, Haydn Chamber Orchestra (Highbury, UK); Die Zauberflöte at Opera North in Nottingham; Sunset Boulevard at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. Last update: August 2018, please do not use any previous version. Melos Opera S.r.l. – Via J. F. Kennedy, 83 – 40068 San Lazzaro di Savena (Bo) – Italia [email protected] – www.melosopera.com – tel. +39 051 455 395 Cap. Soc. € 10.000 i.v. – Cod. Fisc. e P.Iva: 03640741207 – REA BO-535118 .