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Jack will be joining a quartet of classical experts presenting Medici TV's live coverage of Switzerland's Verbier Festival this summer. The 2025 Festival runs 16th July - 3rd August.

This follows the 2024 Festival, where Jack hosted artist Q&As in front of live audiences. His guests included Lily and Sascha Maisky, and Thomas Quasthoff.

Supporting the Arts and Minds campaign, Jack was in Westminster to hand in a letter signed by over 10,000 arts professionals addressed to the Secretaries of State for Education and for Culture, Media and Sport. 

He joined campaign supporters including the National Education Union, the Independent Society of Musicians, Music Mark and Dance UK, and added his name to a letter signed by the likes of Sally Phillips, Harriet Walter, Samuel West, Juliet Stevenson and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason. 

Later, Jack addressed a special reception held in Parliament for the campaign, hosted by Polly Billington MP. 

Jack stood in for Charles Nove all week, 2nd - 6th June, hosting Magic Radio's Magic Classical Breakfast show, 7am - 10am.

His regular weekend shows continue, Saturdays and Sundays 2-6pm.

Jack's children's seaside musical, Gulls & Buoys, continues to be rolled out more widely through summer 2025.

In 2024, it visited three counties, four schools and nine classes, Years 3 - 6.

Classes learn a brand new musical inside of six weeks. Jack trains a team of show mentors, professional musicians and workshop leaders who visit for weekly sessions. Parents, staff and students across the school collaborate to build the sets and costumes. Jack then joins for the dress rehearsal and final performance, accompanying on the piano. 

Jack is grateful for the kind support of the GLF Schools Foundation, The Tasso Foundation and RMG Associates in making this possible.

Jack is delighted to become the Patron of the 2025 Arts Alive Festival, following in the footsteps of previous patrons including Judi Dench and Lorraine Kelly.

Arts Alive is Mole Valley's award-winning community arts festival showcasing music, theatre, comedy, art and more, with over 100 events and 14,000 attendees.

This year's festival runs 27 Sept - 31 Oct 2025.

The King's Foundation have announced their first-ever 35 Under 35, a group of young makers and change-makers who advocate for the change His Majesty The King wants to see in the world.

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The paperback edition of Jack's debut book will be released in September 2025.

'Raising The Roof' provides a colourful and accessible introduction to classical music. It is illustrated by Michele Bruttomesso.

Published by Templar Books / Bonnier Books, it is currently available in hardback worldwide.

 Jack was honoured to join the voting panel for the 2025 BRIT Awards.

He also sat on the judging panel for the 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 Awards.

A global youth music project Jack devised and helped lead has enjoyed a year-long journey around the world.

The Commonwealth Music Relay saw an original song 'carried' by young musicians around the 56 countries of the Commonwealth, marking the Commonwealth's 'Year of Youth'. A new song, 'Symphony', has been co-written by young people from all of the Commonwealth regions, supervised by Jack and hit songwriters Pam Sheyne and Richard Harris, and has travelled the globe with new variations, cover versions and interpretations recorded by young people in each nation. 

There have been hundreds of video submissions already, including contributions from Uganda, Cameroon, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Malta, Nigeria, Antigua and Barbuda, St Helena Island, Canada, The Falkland Islands and the UK.

 Among several public performances were an airing at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa.

The project is delivered by the Commonwealth Resounds, the Commonwealth's official music organisation.