Jack Sheen (1993) is a conductor and composer from Manchester, recognised for his inventive approach to music-making, which blends orchestral traditions with an expansive interdisciplinary perspective.
He regularly works with leading orchestras, ensembles, galleries, and artists on concert and operatic performances, commissions, installations, and interdisciplinary projects. Sheen has conducted some of the world’s leading orchestras, including London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as well as contemporary music specialists such as Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, Ensemble 10:10, Bit20 Ensemble and London Sinfonietta.
Sheen’s 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.
2022 saw the release of Sheen’s debut album Sub, a 50’ work for large ensemble written for Octandre Ensemble. 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 and Co-Founder of the critically acclaimed LCMF Orchestra.
