Jack Liebeck
"The name is not Vengerov or Benedetti: it’s Liebeck. And those who know a thing or two about the violin know to be there. Jack Liebeck may lumber on to the platform as if he’s about to change a lightbulb, but it’s when the bow touches the strings that the electricity really sparks." The Times
Born in 1980 in London, Jack Liebeck began playing the violin at the age of eight. From 1989-1999 he attended the Purcell School of Music and then the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Professor Mateja Marinkovic.
Since making his concerto debut with the Hallé Orchestra, he has performed with many orchestras of international repute including the English Chamber, Belgian National, Bournemouth Symphony, Lausanne Chamber, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Polish National Radio Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Royal Scottish National Orchestras under the baton of many renowned conductors including Martyn Brabbins, Gunter Herbig, Alexander Lazarev, Sir Neville Marriner, Sakari Oramo, Libor Pesek, Jukka Pekka Saraste, Yuri Simonov, Leonard Slatkin, Bramwell Tovey and Barry Wordsworth.
Jack is a committed chamber musician and in 2002 made his acclaimed London recital debut to a sold-out Wigmore Hall. Musical collaborations have included performances with Katya Apekisheva, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Julius Drake, Bengt Forsberg, Lynn Harrell, Angela Hewitt, Piers Lane, Christopher Maltman, Leon MacCawley, Charles Owen, Joan Rodgers, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Ashley Wass and he also leads the Fibonacci Sequence chamber ensemble. Jack has appeared at many major festivals including Bath, Cheltenham, Harrogate, Kuhmo, Montpellier, Montreux, Reims, Spoleto and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music.
Jack’s debut disc on the Quartz label with pianist Katya Apekisheva was released in 2004 to enormous critical acclaim, receiving “CD of the Week” in The Telegraph, “Strad Selection” in the Strad Magazine and a Classical Brit Award nomination. Jack has now signed an exclusive contract with SONY Classical, which has recently released the Dvorak Concerto with Garry Walker and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Dvorak Sonata and Sonatina with Katya Apekisheva. The Daily Telegraph declared: “the young British violinist Jack Liebeck has in recent years been coming to the fore as a musician of exceptional gifts, blessed as he is with a glorious, mellifluous tone and interpretative insight. This is wondrous playing of the most compelling sort."Future releases include the Brahms Violin Sonatas with Katya Apekisheva.
Recent performances include the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Indianapolis Symphony and Douglas Boyd and the Magnus Lindberg concerto with Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra in Spain, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Oslo Philharmonic orchestras, as well as a return to the Australian Chamber Music Festival and recitals in St Georges Hall Liverpool and Symphony Hall Birmingham for the BBC, London’s Wigmore Hall, Bath International Festival and an acclaimed recital in the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Engagements in 2008/9 included Berg’s Chamber Concerto with the Manchester Camerata for the BBC, appearances with the Scottish Chamber, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National and Cyprus Symphony orchestras and recitals in Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Wigmore Hall and tours of Australia and New Zealand.
Jack is Artistic Director of Oxford May Music Festival which had its highly successful inaugural year in 2008. Jack plays the ‘Ex-Wilhelmj’ J.B. Guadagnini dated 1785.
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