Biography
Jack Symonds is a composer, conductor and accompanist, and music director of Sydney Chamber Opera. He studied composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he received the University Medal. Trained also as a pianist and trombonist, he continues to work regularly as an accompanist and pianist, giving the premiere of many new works as well as frequently conducting his own and others’ music, including Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, in March 2010 and the Australian premiere of Jonathan Dove’s chamber version of Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen in August 2011. His song cycle Time Unredeemed was premiered in September 2010 and his Dostoevsky opera Notes from Underground in February 2011 to critical acclaim. He recently premiered a large-scale work for viola and piano, Song Cycle, written for eminent violist James Wannan. His newest stage work, Nunc Dimittis was performed in November. He is currently completing a Masters in Composition as an ABRSM Scholar at the Royal College of Music, London under the tutelage of Kenneth Hesketh.
CONTACT
jack.m.symonds@gmail.com
jack@sydneychamberopera.com
photo: Anja Emzén
