Jess Hoskins (b. 2001) is a conductor from London. They are currently completing their master’s in orchestral conducting at the Royal Academy of Music with Sian Edwards. Jess has taken part in masterclasses with Jac van Steen and Ed Gardner, and studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Antony Hermus as part of the Elton John Global Exchange programme. They have also been selected to take part in a four-day masterclass with Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in June 2025, culminating in a public concert at City Halls.
In October 2024 Jess was invited to be assistant conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra’s collaboration with Nonclassical at the Hackney Empire, a concert featuring works by thirteen living composers conducted by Darren Bloom. They are the assisting Alpesh Chauhan and Paolo Bortolameolli on the National Youth Orchestra’s Spring 2025 tour, having recently worked as assistant to Olivia Clarke and chorus master on Royal Academy Opera’s acclaimed production of Die Zauberflöte. Next season Jess looks forward to assisting Ben Glassberg at Opéra de Rouen.
Recent concert highlights include a sold-out performance of Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony and a concert of Maxwell Davies and Birtwistle with soprano Hannah Dienes-Williams, both in Duke’s Hall at Royal Academy of Music. Jess has performed with the Haydn Chamber Orchestra and Forest Philharmonic, and they are a regular conductor with the New Mozart Orchestra, a professional music education orchestra. Also experienced in opera and musical theatre, their music directing experience includes two premieres at Tête à Tête opera, three productions of Royal Academy Opera Scenes, the second UK production of Philip Venables’ Denis and Katya, and the 2020 ADC Theatre production of My Fair Lady.
They have given premieres of works by over a dozen composers and have consistently foregrounded contemporary music in their orchestral programming. Jess is the founder of The Orchestral Dance Music Experiment, a new project combining electronic dance music with live instrumentals, and they look forward to developing this project in club spaces in London later in the year.
Jess holds a first-class degree in music from the university of Cambridge, where they have since been invited back as a regular guest teacher in conducting. Jess is a learning support tutor at the Royal Academy of Music and they also work as a freelance singer, double bassist, arranger and composer.
