Jack Liebeck was born in 1980 in London. From 1989-1999 he attended the Purcell School of Music and then the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Professor Mateja Marinkovic, graduating in 2003.
Jack's first public appearance was for BBC television, aged ten, when he played the role of young Mozart. Performing in concertos and recitals since the age of eleven, Jack’s appearances have taken him around the world. Since making his concerto debut with the Halle Orchestra, Jack has performed with many orchestras of international renown including the Phiharmonia, Moscow State Symphony, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, English Chamber, Bournemouth Symphony, Lausanne Chamber, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestras. Jack has toured in the UK and abroad with the Belgian National, the English Chamber and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestras and has appeared 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.
His live performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and Television and on radio and television all over the world. He appears as a soloist on a Warner Classics disc of Oscar Wilde Fairy Tales narrated by Stephen Fry and Vanessa Redgrave with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields under Sir Neville Marriner and on the movie soundtrack of Middletown.
Jack Liebeck is a committed Chamber musician; partners have included Katya Apekisheva, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Bengt Forsberg, Itamar Golan, Lynn Harrell, Angela Hewitt, Tim Hugh, Piers Lane, Leon MacCawley, Charles Owen, Martin Roscoe, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Ashley Wass. He has appeared at many major summer festivals including the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Bath, Bergen, Cheltenham, Harrogate, Kuhmo, Montpellier, Montreux, Reims, Rheingau and Spoleto.
Following his critically acclaimed 2004 debut disc on the label Quartz with pianist Katya Apekisheva, in 2009 Jack signed an exclusive contract with Sony Classical for his forthcoming releases. These include Dvorak Violin Concerto, Sonata and Sonatina with the RSNO and the complete Brahms Sonatas with Katya Apekisheva.
Recent performances include the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Indianapolis Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Magnus Lindberg concerto with Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra in Spain, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber 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.
Jack is also the Artistic Director of the festival of music, science and the arts, 'Oxford May Music', now in it's second year [www.oxfordmaymusic.co.uk]
He plays the ‘Ex-Wilhelmj’ Guadagnini dated 1785.
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