Jack Liebeck, violin

British/German violinist, director, and festival director Jack Liebeck possesses “flawless technical mastery” and a “beguiling silvery tone” (BBC Music Magazine). Liebeck is the Royal Academy of Music’s first Émile Sauret Professor of Violin and Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and he has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, conductors and chamber musicians. Liebeck’s fascination with all things scientific has led to two new concertos being written for him and regular collaborator Professor Brian Cox—Dario Marianelli’s Voyager Violin Concerto and Paul Dean’s A Brief History of Time commissioned by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in commemoration of Professor Stephen Hawking. Upcoming highlights include a tour of Australia with VOCES8 including performances at Sydney Opera House and with Queensland Symphony Orchestra performing a new arrangement of The Lark Ascending and Christopher Tin’s The Lost Birds; and return performances with Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Savannah Chamber Music Festival.