2024 Concerts
August 15 - Jack Hancher (guitar)
August 15 - Jack Hancher (guitar)
Described by Gendai Guitar Magazine as a “poet and a painter, colouring sounds out of the guitar as if his imagination and the guitar were one”, Jack Hancher is a rising star of the classical guitar. In 2022, he won the prestigious Gold Medal of the Royal Overseas League Competition, becoming just the third guitarist to win the award.
Jack has performed at the Wigmore Hall, London, playing his arrangements of Albeniz’s piano music and also at the Cheltenham Contemporary Arts Festival with music by Arnold, Britten and Dowland.
Programme
C. Debussy - La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin
C. Debussy - The Little Shepherd
C. Debussy - Danse Bohemienne
M. Ravel – Pavane pour une Infante Defunte
E. Satie - Gymnopedie no.1
A. Jose - Allegro Moderato (from Sonata for Guitar)
A. Jose - Pavana Triste - (from Sonata for Guitar)
F. Mompou - Cancion no.6
I Albeniz - Capricho Catalan
Interval
J. Dowland - Praeludium
J. Dowland - Fantasia in G Major
J. Dowland - Forlorne Hope Fancy
L. Snowden - New Commission (title TBC)
B. Britten - Nocturnal after John Dowland
In 2018, Jack Hancher performed at Wigmore Hall, London, playing his arrangements of Albeniz’s piano music. He completed his Master in Performance at the Royal College of Music (RCM), London in 2018 where he studied with Gary Ryan and Chris Stell and won the RCM Guitar Award 2014 while still in his second year as an undergraduate. Jack has performed across Europe including with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Christian Karlsen, in venues such as the Großer Ehrbar Saal, Vienna, St David’s Hall, Cardiff and has performed live on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune.
In 2020, Jack won a string of awards at various guitar competitions, including First Prize at both the Zagreb Guitar Festival Competition and the Plovdiv GuitArt Festival Competition and in 2021, he was awarded Second Prize at the Altamira International Guitar Competition. In 2017, he was accepted onto the International Guitar Foundation (IGF) Young Artists Platform and performed at the IGF London Guitar Festival at Kings Place, London in October that year.
In 2024, Jack will be releasing his debut album with the record label Deux-Elles. The album will consist of music by English composers including Benjamin Britten and John Dowland and will also feature a new work by one of England’s most exciting young composers, Dani Howard.
Jack has also given Masterclasses at Conservatoires around Europe, including at the Royal College of Music, London and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff.
Jack is an Augustine Strings Artist.