Jack Thompson is currently Director of Music at St Mary's Church, Chelsea and Organist and Teacher of Music at Ardingly College. He has worked previously as a conductor and organist at Oxford, Cambridge and Durham Universities, and today maintains a busy freelance career alongside choirs and ensembles from across the UK.
Jack's work as a conductor, chorus master and organist continues to bring him into fruitful relationships with singers and instrumentalists of international repute. He is Founder and Artistic Director of the Cadogan Consort, and has worked in recent projects with members of the BBC Singers, Glyndebourne Opera, Tenebrae and the Sixteen. Jack continues to appear regularly alongside cathedral, collegiate and university choirs, and has also prepared ensembles for performances with Sir Thomas Allen, Kazushi Ono, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the OAE. He is an Advisor to Rhinegold Education, and will take up post as Principal Conductor of the Sussex Chorus in January 2019.
Over the course of his musical career, Jack has performed extensively at prestigious venues throughout the UK, Continental Europe, North America and the Far East. He has featured in numerous broadcasts for national radio and television, and, in addition to giving recent organ recitals at Durham Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral and St John’s College, Cambridge, has twice appeared as a soloist for HM The Queen. Jack is also increasingly active as a teacher, workshop leader and animateur, and remains in considerable demand as both a chamber and orchestral musician. He works frequently as a guest conductor and accompanist with musicians from the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music, and has previously collaborated with children’s choruses and youth ensembles in advance of concerts with the New London Orchestra and broadcasts at the BBC Proms.
Jack has studied choral conducting and organ performance with some of the world's most prominent musicians and educators, including Stephen Layton, Graham Ross, Mark Williams, James Lancelot and Dame Gillian Weir. He completed a postgraduate degree in music at Cambridge University in 2016, and was both Organ Scholar of Corpus Christi College and Organist for St John’s Voices, the mixed-voice choir of St John’s College. Jack was previously educated as an organ scholar and vice-chancellor's scholar at Durham University, where he was also the recipient of the University's Graham and Joanna Barker Award. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, aged 24, in 2018.
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