2024 FESTIVAL ARTISTS
French Horn
Ben Jacks's Performances
Friday 26 July 2024
AFCM 2024 Opening Night Concert - Festival Feelings
Saturday 27 July 2024
AFCM Governor's Gala - Angels, Demons and other Nasties...
Sunday 28 July 2024
Sunday Morning Church Concert with Stephen Johnson - Discovering Music
Monday 29 July 2024
Ray Golding Sunset Series 2 - Roll Over Beethoven
Monday 29 July 2024
AFCM Evening Concert 1 - Melodious Monday
Friday 2 August 2024
AFCM Evening Concert 4 - Musical Transfigurations
Saturday 3 August 2024
Concert Conversations 6 with Ben Jacks, Brett Dean, Lotte Betts-Dean and Amandine Savary
Saturday 3 August 2024
AFCM Families' Concert presented by Townsville Bulletin
Saturday 3 August 2024
AFCM 2024 Closing Concert - Festival Farewell
Ben Jacks
Ben Jacks is supported by Artist Angel Meta Goodman
Ben Jacks was born in Hobart in 1975 and, after studying with Heidi Kepper at the University of Western Australia, he travelled overseas, studying with Dale Clevenger and Gail Williams in Chicago, Stefan Dohr in Berlin, Erich Penzel in Cologne and Hector McDonald in Vienna.
He joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as Principal Third Horn in 1998 and in 2001 was appointed Principal Horn. In Australia he has also appeared as a guest principal with the Tasmanian, Adelaide, Queensland, West Australian and Melbourne Symphony orchestras and the Opera Australia Orchestra. Internationally, he has performed with the period instrument ensemble Academy of Vienna, regularly appears as guest principal with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and Ensemble Kanazawa in Japan, and in 2017 was invited by Riccardo Muti to perform as guest principal with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed as guest principal with the London Symphony Orchestra since 2014, and in 2018 joined the LSO on tour with Simon Rattle.