Hertfordshire Festival of Music: The Artful Guitar with Jack Hancher

The theme of this year's Hertfordshire Festival of Music is The Art of Music and The Music of Art.

In this concert, the guitarist Jack Hancher presents a programme that ranges from the elegant and expressive works of Erik Satie and Maurice Ravel to the fiery and passionate pieces of Isaac Albeniz and Antonio José. It also features Sarah Frances Jenkins’ Turner-inspired work, Veiled Dawn, which contemplates the essence of transitory light, colours and atmospheres within JMW Turner’s paintings of Mount Rigi.

One of the most brilliant classical guitarists of his generation, Jack Hancher has won numerous prestigious awards, including the Gold Medal of the Royal Overseas League Competition and has been praised by critics as a “poet and a painter, colouring sounds out of the guitar as if his imagination and the guitar were one”.