Claire Jackson, Author at The Big Issue

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_hlioxx744 { display: none !important; }

Claire Jackson

Claire Jackson writes about classical music, opera and the arts for titles including BBC Music magazine and Opera Now. She contributes a fortnightly column on classical and contemporary music to The Big Issue.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_hlioxx74h { display: none !important; }

pride

How classical music is finally taking Pride in its LGBT+ composers

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_hlioxx74i { display: none !important; }

Climate protest

Erland Cooper’s slowly thawing call to arms

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_hlioxx74j { display: none !important; }

Collaboration

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons reimagined by Michael Morpurgo and Daniel Pioro

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_hlioxx74k { display: none !important; }

Choral

BBC Singers: Internationally renowned choir deserved to dodge the axe

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_hlioxx74l { display: none !important; }

Film

Is Lydia Tár based on a real person?

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_hlioxx74m { display: none !important; }

Classical music

Music education: Private schools take initiative in face of government indifference

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_hlioxx74n { display: none !important; }

opera

The Kennedy dynasty’s darkest secret

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_hlioxx74o { display: none !important; }

Music

Hints of Scrooge at the Arts Council of England

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_hlioxx74p { display: none !important; }

funding

English National Opera cuts speak of a deeper problem

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_hlioxx74q { display: none !important; }

Music

English National Opera is in a fight for its life

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_hlioxx74r { display: none !important; }

classical music

Ludovico Einaudi: A meditative balm to the daily grind

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_hlioxx74s { display: none !important; }

Music

How classical music is finally taking Pride in its LGBT+ composers

Erland Cooper’s slowly thawing call to arms

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons reimagined by Michael Morpurgo and Daniel Pioro

BBC Singers: Internationally renowned choir deserved to dodge the axe

Is Lydia Tár based on a real person?

Music education: Private schools take initiative in face of government indifference

The Kennedy dynasty’s darkest secret

Hints of Scrooge at the Arts Council of England

English National Opera cuts speak of a deeper problem

English National Opera is in a fight for its life

Ludovico Einaudi: A meditative balm to the daily grind

The Queen’s funeral: The soundtrack to a sendoff

Get the Big Issue in your inbox today

Sign up to our newsletter for regular updates

Our new Group Impact report shows our breadth of work and how we’re making extraordinary progress against our impact goals.