Nadina Mackie Jackson tours and records worldwide on both modern and historical bassoons, has released seven critically acclaimed solo CDs, many chamber music CDs and can be heard on over 100 orchestral recordings on the London Decca, Sony and Naxos labels.
 
Her first concerto album with Guy Few and the Toronto Chamber Orchestra won Best Orchestral Album of the Year in the 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards. A featured performer at the JPF awards ceremony held in Nashville, Tennessee in August, 2009, Nadina represented the sole classical act amongst ninety performances.
 
Many new works have been dedicated to her, including solo and double concerti, sonatas, solo works and one symphony. Nadina collaborates steadily with emerging and established composers; on February 8, 2010 she premiered the first installment of the electro acoustic work, Our Weight in Phrases by Christopher Willes at the University of Wisonsin at Madison. Also in  2010 she will perform Dreaming in Colours with composer/pianist Hye Kyng Lee at the Ninth Festival of Women Composers at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and in June, will premiere Glenn Buhr's Concerto No. 2 for bassoon and orchestra at the Grand River Baroque Festival.
 
Nadina has performed as soloist with several orchestras including l'Orchestre Symphoniqe de Montréal, Toronto Chamber Orchestra, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra (Ithaca, N.Y.), the Grand River Festival Soloists and l'Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivières.
 
Co-directors of the Grand River Baroque Festival since 2009, Nadina Mackie Jackson and Guy Few have added their stamp to this small festival, integrating visual arts, dance, food and historically inspired performances (HIP) on both baroque and modern instruments.
 
Nadina Mackie Jackson and Guy Few frequently collaborate in concerto and recital recordings, recital tours, concerto appearances, lectures and children's concerts in Canada and the United States.
 
Nadina celebrated her graduation from the Curtis Institute of Music by immediately becoming a member of l'Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal where she remained for a decade. She subsequently became principal bassoon of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra for two years and is currently the principal bassoonist of the Toronto Chamber Orchestra, the Group of Twenty Seven and the baroque orchestra, the Aradia Ensemble. Nadina is a regular guest with Violons du Roy.
 
Nadina is the founder of the Council of Canadian Bassoonists and a member of the advisory board for the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition. She teaches at Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario), the University of Toronto and the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music.

"Jackson's chops are fantastic...saucy and supremely confident...liquidity and precision of articulation. Jackson removes all doubts as to the bassoon being a born solo instrument."
Northwest Reverb - Lorin Wilkerson, April 2009

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