Jack began playing the flute aged 11 after having learned the tuba and the recorder at primary school. After a successful lead role in his primary school’s production of ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’, he was asked to join the boys’ choir of St. Mary’s Church, Beddington. As a chorister he sang at some of the UK’s most revered venues, including St. Paul’s and Ely cathedrals. Jack also recorded a solo CD at the Royal College of Music showcasing vocal, flute, piccolo and recorder pieces, ahead of two solo tours in Germany where he performed at Nuremberg cathedral, Cologne cathedral and various churches in the Rhine region. Within one year of learning, he passed his Grade 5 flute with distinction and was awarded a music scholarship to study at Whitgift School, South Croydon. Whilst there, he studied with Carolyn Kelly and soon after took up the clarinet and saxophone with Maggie Gray, deciding that woodwind doubling was an area he would be interested in specialising in. Jack has also performed in many pit bands for school musicals and played with the Whitgift Chamber Orchestra alongside the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on many occasions. After completing his GCSE’s, he applied and auditioned successfully for Chetham’s School of Music, gaining a place in the sixth form. At the age of 14, Jack was accepted into the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and spent three years playing in the orchestra, with world class conductors at highly prestigious venues, including the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. At Chetham’s, he has had many performance opportunities, both solo and in ensembles. He has also played principal flute and piccolo in the renowned Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra. Jack has played in many musical theatre shows. As a reed player, Jack played in a revised score of West Side Story with only one reed part, which involved eight doubling instruments for a weeks’ run of shows in the Key Theatre in Peterborough. Jack has taken part in many summer courses too, including Musicale in Harpenden and at a flute course with Sam Coles and Atarah Ben Tovim in France last summer. Now, a first year student at the Royal Academy of Music, London, Jack studies with Kate Hill and enjoys frequent masterclasses with world-class flute players. So far, Jack has previously taken part in masterclasses with musicians such as William Bennett, Leon Berendse, Emily Beynon, Robert Dick, Michael Cox, Gitte Marcusson, Gareth Davies, Katherine Bryan and Katherine Baker. Jack also has a great interest in playing ethnic flutes, and performed in a musical in Covent Garden on such instruments in a collaboration with Goldsmith’s University.