Jack Sheen (1993) is a conductor and composer from Manchester. He regularly works with leading orchestras, ensembles, galleries, and artists on concert and operatic performances, commissions, installations, and interdisciplinary projects.  2022 will see the release of Jack’s debut album, Sub, a 50’ work for large ensemble written for Octandre Ensemble, make his debut with the Royal Opera House, London Contemporary Orchestra, and Ensemble 10/10, and return to conduct the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and London Sinfonietta. Throughout summer he will be a Guest Artist at Tanglewood Music Centre.  As a conductor, 2021 saw Jack debut with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, and FontanaMIX Ensemble in diverse programmes including premieres of his own music, return to the Lucerne Festival Academy as a Conducting Fellow, and conduct the world premiere of Matthew Barney & Jonathan Bepler’s large-scale interdisciplinary performance Catasterism in Three Movements, commissioned by Basel’s Schaulager.  Alongside Sub, recent composition projects include, Croon harvest (1490–1562), a sound-installation for the Venice Biennale Musica with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart; Croon harvest (Serralves) a four-hour work for Casa de Serralves (Porto) for 50 voices and ensemble; complete a trio of performance-installations as part of residencies at PINK Gallery in Manchester’s city centre and Blackheath Halls; and finish his tenure as Carne Fellow at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance, the first ever composer to hold this position.  He is the Co-Director of London Contemporary Music Festival (‘the capital’s most adventurous and ambitious festival of new music’ The Guardian, ‘London’s most important festival’, The Wire) and Co-Founder of the critically acclaimed LCMF Orchestra. Equally at home with core repertoire and radical contemporary work, Jack was a 2019 Tanglewood Conducting Fellow and has conducted orchestras around Europe such as the BBC Philharmonic, Hallé, London Sinfonietta, Royal Northern Sinfonia, and Halberstadt Orchestra, alongside some of the Europe’s most progressive ensembles, including Apartment House, EXAUDI and Ensemble Linea, in venues such as the Barbican, Bridgewater Hall, and Wigmore Hall. Recent opera productions include Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel, Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, and Henning Christiansen’s Dejligt vejr i dag, n'est-ce pas, Ibsen.  Jack’s own music encompasses concert works for orchestras, ensembles, and soloists, alongside immersive performance-installations that disperse live musicians, audio, film, and dancers around large, open, non-seated spaces such as galleries or warehouses, blurring the lines between long-durational composition and sculpture. His recent compositions often exist in both formats. His music has been commissioned by orchestras and conductors such as the London Symphony Orchestra (Daniel Harding), BBC Philharmonic (Clark Rundell), Aurora Orchestra (Nicholas Collon) and Manchester Camerata (Gábor Takács-Nagy), ensembles including Apartment House, Les Métaboles and Plus Minus Ensemble, and commissioned by organisations such as London Contemporary Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Northern Chords, and BBC Young Artists Day. He has held residencies at Abbaye de Royaumont and the Camargo Foundation, has had pieces realised at the Victoria & Albert Museum, British Museum, the Baltic (Gateshead), and Holden Gallery (Manchester), and has appeared numerous times on BBC Radio 3 and NTS.  Awards include PRS Composers Fund (2021), Arts Foundation Fellowship (finalist, 2020), Rovaumont Voix Nouvelle Composition Prize (2018), Royal Philharmonic Prize for Composition (2016), an RNCM Gold Medal (2012) and BBC Young Composer of the Year (2011). In 2019 he was a Jerwood Fellow with Manchester International Festival. In 2018 he co-founded the LCMF Orchestra with curator Igor Toronyi-Lalic, whose radical focus on interdisciplinary commissions from composers, improvisers, visual artists and choreographers debuted to critical acclaim (‘music is rarely so entertaining or hard-hitting’, The Telegraph). Described as ‘the omnipresent wunderkind of British new music’ (TEMPO), Jack has collaborated with many of the world’s leading composers, improvisers, choreographers, and visual artists, including Christian Wolff, Michael Finnissy, Cerith Wyn Evans, Heiner Goebbels, Gerald Barry, Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, Chaya Czernowin, Cassandra Miller, Sir George Benjamin, Julian Anderson, and Eli Keszler.  Alongside Tanglewood and Lucerne, Jack has taken part in prestigious masterclasses around the globe, including the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme, Dartington Summer School, and Royaumont Voix Nouvelles. He has worked extensively as an assistant-conductor to Thomas Adès, Ilan Volkov, Ludovic Morlot, and Richard Baker, with orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, CBSO, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Philharmonie Luxembourg, Ensemble BIT20, and Crash Ensemble.  Between 2016-17 Jack held an Artist Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, after completing a Masters at the School with Distinction studying with James Weeks and Tim Redmond. He graduated from the RNCM and University of Manchester Joint Course with First-class honours, an RNCM Gold Medal and the Hargreaves Prize for Composition in 2015, where he studied with Larry Goves, David Horne, and Mark Heron.