Graham Jackson is regarded as one of the most dynamic and talented young conductors to have emerged in Europe in recent years. As General Music Director of the combined theatres of Krefeld/Mönchengladbach he is credited with having raised the standard of the company to new levels and has garnered enthusiastic plaudits for his efforts.

This season at Krefeld and Mönchengladbach, Maestro Jackson will reprise the critically acclaimed production of Prokofiev’s L’Amour des Trois Oranges, along with Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Carlo, Nielsen’s Maskarade, a Wagner concert titled Der Ring an einem Abend, and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet ballet. In the 2010/11 season, Maestro Jackson was nominated by critics in Theater Pur magazine as “Conductor of the Year” for his performances of L’Amour des Trois Oranges, Das Rheingold, Verdi's Giovanna d’Arco, and a double bill of Puccini's Le Villi and Suor Angelica.

Maestro Jackson built his operatic repertoire working at the Welsh National Opera, until 2000 when he moved to Germany to take the position of First Kapellmeister at Bremen Opera. There he established his reputation conducting the highly regarded productions of Così fan tutte, and Die tote Stadt, and the world-premiere of the opera Noach by Sidney Corbett. He also took over the new production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk a week before the premiere, with a sensational success following.

In September 2003 Maestro Jackson was appointed to the position of General Music Director in Krefeld and Mönchengladbach. Since then, he has conducted a huge range of productions, from Baroque (Händel’s Tamerlano) to contemporary (the first German performance of Friedrich Cerha’s Der Riese vom Steinfeld). Recent highlights were a double-bill evening of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Schoenberg’s Erwartung, and a much-praised production of Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades. He achieved international recognition for the world-premiere production of Stefan Heucke’s much discussed opera Das Frauenorchester von Auschwitz.

Much respected for his interpretations of the operas of Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, Maestro Jackson is also a specialist in the works of his compatriot, Benjamin Britten, having conducted all of his significant stage works, most recently Death in Venice, to great acclaim. Maestro Jackson is a native of England. He won scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge University, and then completed his musical studies at the Royal Northern College of Music under Timothy Reynish.

Beethoven Fidelio Bellini Norma Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini Bernstein Candide Bizet Carmen Britten Billy Budd, Death In Venice A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter Grimes Rape of Lucretia, Turn of the Screw Cerha Der Riese vom Steinfeld Cilea Adriana Lecouvreur Corbett Noach Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor Händel Alcina, Tamerlano Heucke Das Frauenorchester von Auschwitz Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel Janáček Cunning Little Vixen, From the House of the Dead, Jenůfa Korngold Die tote Stadt Leoncavallo I Pagliacci Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana Massenet Werther

Mozart Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte Mussorgsky Boris Godunov Prokofiev L’Amour des Trois Oranges Puccini La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Suor Angelica, Tosca, Turandot, Le Villi Purcell Dido and Aeneas Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola Schönberg Erwartung Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Smetana The Bartered Bride R Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos, Elektra Der Rosenkavalier Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin, Queen of Spades Verdi Aida , Un Ballo in Maschera, Don Carlo, Falstaff, Giovanna d’Arco, Nabucco, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, La Traviata Wagner Das Rheingold, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde Weber Der Freischütz