Nadina Mackie Jackson “A wonderful, wonderful concert. Even this morning I feel superior to all humanity that was not there. Thanks for opening a vein, Heather and Nadina” --- Johnny Lucas, Audience comment ,December 5, 2016, Kick-Ass Music for Bassoon & Piano “bassoon phenomenon in Canada and abroad…showstopper…take no prisoners and passion for the bassoon…virtuosic playing to the end drew the crowd to its feet..” Classical Concerts NS [August 27, 2016] Website: www.nadina.ca Canadian bassoonist, visual artist and writer, Nadina Mackie Jackson is the daughter of renowned log builder, Bernard Allan Mackie and political activist, Mary Mackie. Surrounded by people of all walks of life, Nadina has been interested in broad musical collaborations from the start when she entered the University of British Columbia at the age of 16 and had her first bassoon lessons. She won a position with the Montreal Symphony at the age of 22, simultaneously with graduating from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. After a decade of recording and touring with the MSO, Nadina joined the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra as principal bassoon, then took up the baroque bassoon, recording and performing with the Aradia Ensemble. Currently the principal bassoonist of the group of twenty-seven chamber orchestra, Nadina began her solo career in earnest in the year 2000 with the release of Telemann’s Twelve Fantasias and is now Canada’s most widely recorded solo bassoonist. With 19 concerto, recital and chamber music and over 48 orchestral albums to her credit, Nadina is also a catalyst for new music with 16 pieces for solo bassoon and orchestra written for her along with as-yet uncounted solo and chamber works. Founder of the of the charitable status group, the Council of Canadian Basssoonists , Nadina has taught at Canada’s major universities since the age of 22 (McGill, University of Toronto, Wilfrid Laurier, Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music) and at the State University of New York at Fredonia and in masterclasses from Memphis to , Vancouver to Halifax, with former students in orchestras across North America and beyond. Nadina has co-founded many chamber music groups, including her duo with Guy Few, the Caliban Quartet of Bassoonists, Musica Franca “Tremendous colour and a riot of textures…the playing of the ensemble at this point was so extraordinary…perfectly sweet and mellow… danced, sparkling, over the edge of its time, and dissolved into an energized audience” Stanley Fefferman, OpusOneReview [July 2013]http://opusonereview.com/?p=3092 “With its top-notch soloist [Nadina Mackie Jackson] paired with some of the best baroque string and continuo players in North America this is easily one of the finest recordings of Vivaldi on modern instruments out there..” Ryan Romine, IDRS Journal, Issue 36:1, [July 2013] “you should buy this disc…breathtaking virtuosity and an irresistible verve and sparkle by Nadina Mackie Jackson and her seven cohorts… Fasten your seatbelts.” George Chien, Issue 36:6, Fanfare [July/Aug 2013] “When Canadian bassoonist Nadina Mackie Jackson begins to play, the logic is revealed: she and McGegan turn these concertos into pure virtuoso vehicles” James Manheim, AllMusic [July, 2013]http://www.allmusic.com/album/vivaldi-bassoon-concerti-mw0002494461 Solo bassoonist who plays well with others.