Nadina Mackie Jackson is a solo bassoonist based in Toronto. She recently released her third solo CD, Notes from Abroad, a full-length collaboration with the pianist David Swan featuring lyrical new works written for them along with standard virtuoso showpieces. Both of her earlier solo CDs, Twelve Fantasias for Solo Bassoon by Georg Philipp Telemann and Ever After, were nominated for "best classical soloist of the year" by the independent web-based organization Just Plain Folks.

Equally at home as a chamber musician and orchestral musician, Nadina tours and records with such groups as Violons du Roy, Aradia, The Theatre of Early Music, and Caprice. She began her orchestral career with the Montreal Symphony at the age of 22, and a decade later, joined the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra for 2 years as principal bassoon.

Nadina has formed several major chamber groups in Toronto and Montreal including The Caliban Quartet of Bassoonists, which has produced two best-selling CD's, Bassoonatics and Feast and received the "best of the year" award in its genre from the The American Record Guide, 2003. Other groups include Musica Franca, dedicated to the large body of French Baroque music for bassoons and Like the Wind, a small string orchestra and solo bassoon built from members who are equally proficient on both modern and historical instruments and finally, the JacksonSwan Duo with her collaborator of many years, the pianist David Swan.

Nadina teaches at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto and is on the advisory board for the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition, a new competition based in Austin, Texas, exclusively directed towards young women bassoonists.