Jackson Welchner is a young freelancing vocalist, composer, and arranger based out of Toronto. Singer of jazz, classical, folk, and improvised genres, Jackson always strives to “serve the music”.

Over the years he has performed with a wide variety of ensembles. He has shared the stage with Jackie Richardson, Mike Cado, Chelsea McBride, Brownman Ali, and Tanya Tagaq. He has crooned with the Toronto All-Star Big Band, toured Canada with the Socialist Night School, barber-shopped with The Yonge Guns, and improvised with the Element Choir. Jackson has performed in many of Toronto's festivals including the TD Jazz Festival, Toronto International Beaches Jazz Festival, MAW: Vocal Arts Festival, Luminato, and Sing! Vocal Arts Festival. Jackson brings dedication and energy to every style of music he encounters.

As a composer and arranger, Jackson works with choirs, chamber brass ensembles, string quartets and a couple of his own larger ensembles featuring brass, woodwinds, strings, and occasionally extra percussion. In 2018, he joined the Spectrum Music team as a composer and an Artistic Producer, writing for Andrew Downing, Bruce Cassidy, and Larnell Lewis. In the past year, Jackson has started writing for harp, string quartet and accordion, french horn quartet, and recently, a quartet containing violin, guitar, banjo, and tabla (So Long Seven). He aspires to someday learn to write for Hurdy-Gurdy.

In March of 2023, he released his first full length jazz-fusion LP, “Blink Twice”. Starting the process in 2021, he fully composed, arranged, produced and mixed the album on his own, with features from Toronto’s best musicians, such as Patrick Smith, Anh Phung, Michael Davidson, Marito Marques, Sarah Thawer, and Thom Gill. He also arranged all of the string parts, performed by the Venuti String Quartet, as well as a 4 piece horn section. He was able to realize this project on physical vinyl records through generous grants from FACTOR, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts.

Jackson has had the privilege of studied voice with the likes of Theo Bleckmann, JD Walter, Norma Winstone, Christine Duncan, Alex Samaras, Fay Victor, and Shannon Gunn, and has studied composition and arranging intensively with David Braid, Terry Promane, Phil Nimmons, John McLeod, Ralph Alessi, and Andrew Downing.