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 at London's Wigmore Hall, becoming just the third guitarist to win the award. This was preceded in 2021 by a tour of several European Guitar Festivals as a EuroStrings Artist.
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 2018, Jack performed at Wigmore Hall, London, playing his arrangements of Albeniz’s piano music. 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.
Programme to include
J. Dowland - Praeludium (1) J. Dowland - Fantasia in G Major (4) J. Dowland - Forlorne Hope Fancy (4)
E. Satie - Gymnopedie no.1 (3)
A. Jose - Allegro Moderato (from Sonata for Guitar) (7) A. Jose - Pavana Triste (from Sonata for Guitar) (6)
C. Debussy - La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin (3) C. Debussy - The Little Shepherd (3) C. Debussy - Danse Bohemienne (3)
F. Mompou - Cancion no.6 (2)
I. Albeniz - Capricho Catalan (4)
D. Howard - You Don't Have To Tell Me Twice (7)
L. Snowden - The Memory Garden (6)
The next lunchtime concert is on Thursday 27 February and will be performed by Marouan Benabdallah (piano).
Join the LSE Choir and Orchestra on Tuesday 1 April for the LSE Spring Concert in the beautiful surroundings of St Clement Danes Church.
More about this event
Just economics and politics? Think again. While LSE does not teach arts or music, there is a vibrant cultural side to the School - from weekly free music concerts in the Shaw Library, and an LSE orchestra and choir with their own professional conductors, various film, art and photographic student societies and regular public exhibitions. For more information please visit LSE Arts and Music.
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