Jack Sheen
© Hugo Glendinning
fierceness and precision
Conductor, Composer
Co-Director of London Contemporary Music Festival
Wigmore Hall Associate Artist (from September 2026)
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‘A welcome blaze of fierceness, imagined with perfect precision’
The Daily Telegraph
Jack Sheen is a Manchester-born conductor and composer whose work is driven by curiosity, a love of collaboration and a deep engagement with sound. His compositions range from orchestral and chamber works to installations and site-specific projects exploring space and listening, and include commissions from organisations such as the BBC and Wien Modern. As a conductor, he is recognised for thoughtful, refined interpretations that reflect his own compositional insight, as well as his collaborative rehearsal style. He works with ensembles including BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta and Klangforum Wien, as well as in opera. Selected for the London Symphony Orchestra’s Panufnik Composers Scheme, he now maintains the relationship as a conductor, leading workshops for emerging composers.
‘I believe that the next important step for classical music is to bring it into dialogue with wider cultural conversation, rather than changing the art itself or the rituals that surround it. This is a responsibility for artists and curators’
