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.

Jack’s 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 is a committed Chamber musician and is the leader of the Fibonacci Sequence ensemble. Chamber 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, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Ashley Wass. Jack 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.

Jack’s debut disc (QTZ2002) on Quartz was released in July 2004 to enormous critical acclaim, achieving “CD of the Week” in the Daily Telegraph, and “Strad Selection” in the Strad Magazine and a Classical Brit Award nomination. It has also been extensively featured in the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs 2005/6. Reviewers comments in the Sunday Times, Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph concluded, “a major and astounding new talent”, “Liebeck is…one of the most accomplished violinists of his generation and this debut disc…does full justice to his talents” and “[Liebeck] has a marvelous full tone, big technique and unstoppable virtuoso dash”.

2007/8 includes concertos with the City of London Symphonia and Indianapolis Syphony - under Douglas Boyd, the Spanish premiere of Magnus Lindberg Violin Concerto with Orquestra Sinfonica de Navarra and recitals in the Bath Festival, Brisbane, the QEH and Zaragosza. Jack is the Artistic Director of the new festival, Oxford May Music (www.oxfordmaymusic.co.uk).

Jack plays the ‘Ex-Wilhelmj’ Guadagnini dated 1785.

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