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Since graduating from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2019, Jack has enjoyed a varied freelance career in performance, music education, arts administration, project production and delivery. A fan of all genres of music and forms of art, he has a strong belief that tangible connections can be made between communities through the performance of the music of our time.
As a performer Jack has appeared at a number of the leading music venues in the UK, including The Royal Opera House, Barbican Centre, Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Cadogan Hall, Cafe OTO, The Roundhouse, Alexandra Palace, GlasshouseICM (formerly Sage Gateshead), The White Hotel Manchester, Woolwich Works, Stone Nest and Union Chapel. Major Classical/Early Music Festival appearances have included St. Endellion Festival, Three Choirs Festival, Deal Festival, Barbican Sound Unbound and BBCSO Total Immersion.
In September 2021, Jack moved to Chicago to deepen his understanding of Contemporary Music with Stephen Burns, founder of Fulcrum Point New Music Project. Whilst in Chicago, Jack worked with many of Chicago’s finest experimental musicians and composers. He appeared with Ensemble Dal Niente at Ear Taxi Festival performing a new composition by founding member of Art Ensemble of Chicago Thurman Barker, and featured in a live instrumental conduction to film with composer/conductor Renée Baker, founding member of the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project.
In 2022, upon returning from Chicago, Jack founded The Listening Project. A dynamic mixed-instrumentation ensemble committed to the innovative and demystifying presentation of contemporary and experimental music(s). The group has delivered a wide range of performances in London at venues such as Avalon Cafe, The George Tavern, Morocco Bound Bookshop, and The Old Church Stoke Newington, where the group were ensemble in residence in 2023. Jack used the residency to feature the work of wandelweiser composer Jürg Frey, also programming works by Linda Buckley, Laurence Crane, Julius Eastman, Aileen Sweeney, Sally Beamish and more. In March of 2024, The Listening Project collaborated with Turner-Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller in a performance of his Acid House Concept Piece, Acid Brass, drawing hundreds of people to their pop-up performance in a gallery in South East London.
In 2022, Jack began a fruitful relationship with Camden’s iconic music venue The Roundhouse, achieving a place on their Young Artist Programme as a member of the Music Collective. Whilst part of the Collective, Jack performed in Guy Garvey’s (Elbow, Radio 6 Music) Finest Hour Live Show as part of the In The Round Festival in April 2023. He also was part of the line-up at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton in May of 2023. Along with his musical pursuits at the Roundhouse, Jack was also took part in the Workspace pilot, helping to shape the programming of their new £8 Million facility for young people in the creative industries. He was a valued member of the Youth Advisory Board and went on to be shortlisted for a place on the Board of Directors as a young Trustee, as well as being an inaugural member of the Men’s Group, a weekly peer support group for young male-identifying creatives to connect, challenge, contribute and celebrate ‘maleness’ in the context of creative expression.
In Popular Music, Jack has featured in Live Shows and on Recordings with Blossom Calderone, SISTRA, Martha Skye Murphy, WorldPeaceDMT, automan and Dog Unit, to name a few.
As a member of London Ambient Orchestra, a collective of improvisers who conceive their own long form pieces from within the ensemble, he has performed at Wilderness Festival, Woodbridge Ambient Festival, Daylight Music and Stone Nest in London’s West End. The group recently recorded an album at the Tonmeister Studio in Surrey, due for release in 2025.
In 2024, Jack was a participant at the world-renowned Center for Advanced Musical Studies, Chosen Vale under the stewardship of Ed Carroll, Clément Saunier, Mireia Farres, Ryan Bancrfot, Stephen Burns, Pasi Pirinen and Dave Bilger.