Jack Hancher

Programme

J. S. Bach      - Sarabande/Double BWV 1002 (7mins)
J.S. Bach       - Bourree/Double BWV (6 mins)
Antonio Jose - Sonata for Guitar
                         i) Allegro Moderato
                         ii) Minueto
                         iii) Pavane Triste
                         iv) Final

J. Dowland - Praeludium (2 mins)
J. Dowland - Fantasia in G Major (5mins)
B. Britten   - Nocturnal after John Dowland (19mins)

Jack Hancher is an award winning classical guitarist. He completed his Master in Performance at the Royal College of Music (RCM), London in 2018 where he studied with Gary Ryan and Chris Stell and won the RCM Guitar Award 2014 while still in his second year as an undergraduate. In 2022, he won the Royal Overseas League Competition Strings Section, which was preceded in 2021 by a tour of several European Guitar Festivals as a EuroStrings Artist. In 2020, Jack won 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 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. In 2018, Jack performed at Wigmore Hall, London, playing his arrangements of Albeniz’s piano music and later that year, performed at the Cheltenham Contemporary Arts Festival with music by Arnold, Britten and Dowland. Jack has performed across Europe in venues such as the Großer Ehrbar Saal, Vienna and the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi, Turin.