Jack Sheen

Composer & Conductor, UK

Jack Sheen is a composer and conductor from Manchester. His work encompasses concert works, installations and interdisciplinary performance. He is one of the curators behind London Contemporary Music Festival, and also realises concerts as An assembly.
Equally at home within established and grass-roots activity, Jack’s music has been commissioned by internationally renowned ensembles including LSO, BBC Philharmonic, Aurora Orchestra, and Manchester Camerata, alongside progressive new music groups including Apartment House, EXAUDI, Plus Minus Ensemble, and Psappha.
In 2019 Jack was awarded a Jerwood Creative Fellowship with Manchester International Festival and became Trinity Laban Conservatoire’s Richard Carne Fellow.
Learn more: www.jacksheen.com

New work for 16 voices

During this residency, Jack Sheen aims to develop a new work for sixteen solo voices. Each singer will have their own autonomous part, operating as an individual rather than part of a coordinated ensemble. Much of his music evades dramatic linear narratives in music, often through simple ideas such as repetition and stasis, whilst questioning more elusive notions such as memory, expectation, and climax. Through this piece he hopes to further probe these ideas, balancing large blocks of material alongside and on-top of one another in an almost sculptural way.

Jack is in residence at the Camargo Foundation from June 3rd to 10, 2019 with support provided by the Royaumont Foundation.