Organist and pianist Sean Jackson began his musical studies at the age of five and by the age of eleven had won his first gold medal in his country’s National Independence Festival of Creative Arts. In recognition of his outstanding contribution he was subsequently awarded the National Youth Award from the Barbados Government, and went on to receive numerous prizes and awards both at the undergraduate and graduate level including the Parratt, Walford Davies, and Geoffrey Tankard organ prizes, the Douglas Whittaker Chamber Music Prize all from the Royal College of Music; the A.H. Kuhn Memorial Scholarship, the 1999 William Schumann Prize, and the C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellowship from the Juilliard School. In 2004 Jackson graduated from The Juilliard School, New York, where he received both his Master of Music and Doctorate degrees. 

In October, 2000, while still a student at the Juilliard school, Jackson won an organ competition which entitled him to perform Stephen Paulus’s Organ Concerto with the Juilliard Symphony at the Alice Tully Hall and was featured again with the Juilliard Symphony at the Lincoln Center in November 2003 with a performance of the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony. He has performed as guest organist with the New York Youth Symphony in Carnegie Hall, was a featured artist in the International Concert Series at Trinity, Wall Street, and performed a solo concert at The Washington National Cathedral, 2006. 

Other highlights of his performance career include a performance before the Commonwealth conference of Ministers of Education, a debut performance at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, and a performance at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with violinist Stephen Clapp. He has served on the boards of both the New York City and Fairfield West Chapters of the American Guild of Organists, the latter for which he oversaw their online communications. Since 2012 he has been presenting concerts, workshops and masterclasses in Taipei, Taiwan as a featured guest of the Taipei Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. 

Jackson is featured in a number of recordings including his debut CD, Sean Jackson Plays Organ Favorites: Volume I, a second solo CD Organ Favorites: Volume 2, The Way, an album of vocal arias, spirituals and classics with soprano Meghan Joynt, as well as It Is Well With My Soul, a CD of spirituals and short violin works with Dean Emeritus of the Juilliard School, violinist Stephen Clapp, and soprano Amy Clapp Dye. In 2019 Jackson completed a three year project featuring weekly YouTube recordings of reharmonized hymns to correspond with each week in the church liturgical calendar year. The positive response to this venture inspired the creation of “Reharmonize”, an online hymn playing course for church organists.