Claire Jackson, Author at Big Issue

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.

Kelvin Harrison Jr as Joseph Bologne playing a violin

classical

Joseph Bologne and Karl Jenkins: Misrepresented composers, centuries apart

Pears and Britten outside Crag House with their dog Jove as a puppy. Photographer: unknown

pride

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

Climate protest

Erland Cooper's slowly thawing call to arms

Collaboration

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

Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers at Glasgow’s City Halls.

Choral

BBC Singers: Internationally renowned choir deserved to dodge the axe

Film

Is Lydia Tár based on a real person?

Orchestra of the Swan play in a private school hall

Classical music

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

opera

The Kennedy dynasty's darkest secret

Music

Hints of Scrooge at the Arts Council of England

funding

English National Opera cuts speak of a deeper problem