Simon Jackson
@sjjackson32.bsky.social
Director of Music, Peterhouse | Author *George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture* http://tinyurl.com/brc3byuc | Some music at Encore Publications https://tinyurl.com/2ry6dak2
Recommended release from MusicWeb International:
“well prepared, with accurate intonation and most expressive singing, and the whole disc is a pleasure to hear…I hope the choir goes on to record more from their Partbooks"
Full review: musicwebinternational.com/.../music-fr...
naxos.lnk.to/8574700AC
“well prepared, with accurate intonation and most expressive singing, and the whole disc is a pleasure to hear…I hope the choir goes on to record more from their Partbooks"
Full review: musicwebinternational.com/.../music-fr...
naxos.lnk.to/8574700AC
September 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Recommended release from MusicWeb International:
“well prepared, with accurate intonation and most expressive singing, and the whole disc is a pleasure to hear…I hope the choir goes on to record more from their Partbooks"
Full review: musicwebinternational.com/.../music-fr...
naxos.lnk.to/8574700AC
“well prepared, with accurate intonation and most expressive singing, and the whole disc is a pleasure to hear…I hope the choir goes on to record more from their Partbooks"
Full review: musicwebinternational.com/.../music-fr...
naxos.lnk.to/8574700AC
Just received the first review of our new @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir CD, and it's a cracker:
🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 from BBC Music Magazine
Praised for its “warmly blended account”, & the way it “catches winningly the bounding enthusiasm...and bright buoyant rhythms” of this music
🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 from BBC Music Magazine
Praised for its “warmly blended account”, & the way it “catches winningly the bounding enthusiasm...and bright buoyant rhythms” of this music
September 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just received the first review of our new @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir CD, and it's a cracker:
🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 from BBC Music Magazine
Praised for its “warmly blended account”, & the way it “catches winningly the bounding enthusiasm...and bright buoyant rhythms” of this music
🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 from BBC Music Magazine
Praised for its “warmly blended account”, & the way it “catches winningly the bounding enthusiasm...and bright buoyant rhythms” of this music
If anyone is interested in a 20% discount for my Herbert and Music book, I've just received this flyer with a discount code:
www.cambridge.org/se/universit...
www.cambridge.org/se/universit...
September 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
If anyone is interested in a 20% discount for my Herbert and Music book, I've just received this flyer with a discount code:
www.cambridge.org/se/universit...
www.cambridge.org/se/universit...
Reading Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. That's a pretty nice chord, Thomas:
August 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Reading Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. That's a pretty nice chord, Thomas:
Starting the new term with a little filming project with Peterhouse Choir in the stunning Peterhouse Deer Park
May 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Starting the new term with a little filming project with Peterhouse Choir in the stunning Peterhouse Deer Park
This was a lovely interview on @bbcradio3.bsky.social at the weekend with our former @peterhousecam.bsky.social Master Bridget Kendall & particularly lovely for it to include my choir singing some of my music. Full programme on @bbcsounds.bsky.social for the next month www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
April 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This was a lovely interview on @bbcradio3.bsky.social at the weekend with our former @peterhousecam.bsky.social Master Bridget Kendall & particularly lovely for it to include my choir singing some of my music. Full programme on @bbcsounds.bsky.social for the next month www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Thrilled that @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir is going to get some airtime singing some of my music on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social on Saturday: listen to Bridget Kendall on Music Matters speaking about the music that has accompanied her career: tune in at 1pm!
📻: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
📻: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
April 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Thrilled that @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir is going to get some airtime singing some of my music on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social on Saturday: listen to Bridget Kendall on Music Matters speaking about the music that has accompanied her career: tune in at 1pm!
📻: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
📻: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Is this true, Wikipedia? Are Tennessee Williams and Quincy Jones distantly related to Aemilia Lanyer/Bassano, Nicholas Lanier &co? #completelyunhelpfulbutinterestingfacts
March 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Is this true, Wikipedia? Are Tennessee Williams and Quincy Jones distantly related to Aemilia Lanyer/Bassano, Nicholas Lanier &co? #completelyunhelpfulbutinterestingfacts
As it's #GeorgeHerbert day, it's a good day to note that the (much more affordable!) paperback version of my Herbert & Music book is finally on its way - it's appeared on the CUP website for pre-order (though it won't be available for a few months yet): www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
February 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
As it's #GeorgeHerbert day, it's a good day to note that the (much more affordable!) paperback version of my Herbert & Music book is finally on its way - it's appeared on the CUP website for pre-order (though it won't be available for a few months yet): www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
My first recording of the Vaughan Williams Herbert settings was, I think, this disc from Naxos - so it was a pretty special treat to hear Simon Keenleyside in the flesh singing all 5 Mystical Songs tonight as the anthem at Evensong with the Choir of St John’s
February 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
My first recording of the Vaughan Williams Herbert settings was, I think, this disc from Naxos - so it was a pretty special treat to hear Simon Keenleyside in the flesh singing all 5 Mystical Songs tonight as the anthem at Evensong with the Choir of St John’s
🪐✨🌟 After Evensong yesterday, @peterhousecam.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Sam Cabot set up his telescope outside chapel - we got to see VENUS and JUPITER and its moons! One of the most memorable Candlemas weekends. Just amazing working in this kind of place! #musicofthespheres #harmoniamundi
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🪐✨🌟 After Evensong yesterday, @peterhousecam.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Sam Cabot set up his telescope outside chapel - we got to see VENUS and JUPITER and its moons! One of the most memorable Candlemas weekends. Just amazing working in this kind of place! #musicofthespheres #harmoniamundi
So pleased & moved to see this published: not one of mine, but a chapter by my late sister-in-law Helen Mahoney, completed by my brother following her death from breast cancer in 2024:
'How Healthy is the Creative Health Sector' in Cultures of Creative Health, @hudunipress.bsky.social
'How Healthy is the Creative Health Sector' in Cultures of Creative Health, @hudunipress.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
So pleased & moved to see this published: not one of mine, but a chapter by my late sister-in-law Helen Mahoney, completed by my brother following her death from breast cancer in 2024:
'How Healthy is the Creative Health Sector' in Cultures of Creative Health, @hudunipress.bsky.social
'How Healthy is the Creative Health Sector' in Cultures of Creative Health, @hudunipress.bsky.social
Farewell Oslo! @simonekotva.bsky.social and I are heading off on new adventures in Gothenburg (continuing my work in Cambridge) the city decked out in snow for our departure
January 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Farewell Oslo! @simonekotva.bsky.social and I are heading off on new adventures in Gothenburg (continuing my work in Cambridge) the city decked out in snow for our departure
Happy new year from Oslo’s first snowfall of 2025
January 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Happy new year from Oslo’s first snowfall of 2025
I heard a while back of a Star Trek episode named after Herbert’s “Jordan (I)”. In the name of research, boldly going there this evening….
December 17, 2024 at 8:10 PM
I heard a while back of a Star Trek episode named after Herbert’s “Jordan (I)”. In the name of research, boldly going there this evening….
The snow has started falling outside, it’s nearly midwinter: finally time to start this wonderfully atmospheric macabre masterpiece - look at that cover!
December 15, 2024 at 10:01 AM
The snow has started falling outside, it’s nearly midwinter: finally time to start this wonderfully atmospheric macabre masterpiece - look at that cover!
And, in the other direction, an incredible near-full moon and crepuscular glow
December 14, 2024 at 2:17 PM
And, in the other direction, an incredible near-full moon and crepuscular glow
The Oslo fjord, sun setting
December 14, 2024 at 2:10 PM
The Oslo fjord, sun setting
Good book for a flight? Let’s see….
December 14, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Good book for a flight? Let’s see….
We finished our @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir term yesterday with some filming in chapel - our Christmas film coming soon! I think the Choir needs a well-earned rest….
December 8, 2024 at 8:49 AM
We finished our @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir term yesterday with some filming in chapel - our Christmas film coming soon! I think the Choir needs a well-earned rest….
A lovely (if chilly) Saturday morning trip to Herbert’s church at Leighton Bromswold to talk to ordinands from Westcott House about The Temple & H’s restoration work on the church, followed by a brief sortie to the Ferrars’ church at Little Gidding (I left my phone, so photos harvested from the web)
November 23, 2024 at 6:09 PM
A lovely (if chilly) Saturday morning trip to Herbert’s church at Leighton Bromswold to talk to ordinands from Westcott House about The Temple & H’s restoration work on the church, followed by a brief sortie to the Ferrars’ church at Little Gidding (I left my phone, so photos harvested from the web)
Happy St Cecilia's Day! Some members of Peterhouse Choir have decided to celebrate by putting on a concert of music from Scandinavia & the Nordic countries this evening in Peterhouse Chapel at 6.30pm. Free entry, and you even get Norwegian Apple Cake afterwards. All welcome!
November 22, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Happy St Cecilia's Day! Some members of Peterhouse Choir have decided to celebrate by putting on a concert of music from Scandinavia & the Nordic countries this evening in Peterhouse Chapel at 6.30pm. Free entry, and you even get Norwegian Apple Cake afterwards. All welcome!
“In the offing” — I didn’t know that. Finally reading The Outrun by Amy Liptrot & it’s bringing back memories of Orcadian family holidays (and a longing for the North) — as I struggle with a particularly dreadful journey attempting to get back from Oxford to Cambridge in time for Evensong rehearsal
November 17, 2024 at 10:59 AM
“In the offing” — I didn’t know that. Finally reading The Outrun by Amy Liptrot & it’s bringing back memories of Orcadian family holidays (and a longing for the North) — as I struggle with a particularly dreadful journey attempting to get back from Oxford to Cambridge in time for Evensong rehearsal
Excellent devil/green man in the windows of Exeter College chapel
November 16, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Excellent devil/green man in the windows of Exeter College chapel
A day in Oxford to attend composer James Whitbourn’s memorial service at Magdalen
November 16, 2024 at 12:03 PM
A day in Oxford to attend composer James Whitbourn’s memorial service at Magdalen