Announcing JACK Quartet’s 2022-2023 Season
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JACK Quartet’s season opens with a return to TIME:SPANS (August 25) at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music and the premiere of phren by Eric Wubbels. The piece bristles with vibrating microtonal stacks and explodes with rhythmic energy, sharing the program with Catherine Lamb’s glistening geode, Two Blooms, in its New York premiere.
JACK’s season continues with another major addition to the repertoire, String Creatures by Liza Lim, which premiered in August at the Lucerne Festival. JACK performs its US premiere as part of Miller Theatre’s Composer Portrait Series (September 29). JACK returns to Miller Theatre (March 2) for two world premieres with Yarn/Wire in a Composer Portrait of the psychedelically uneasy Norwegian composer Øyvind Torvund.
In the new year, JACK produces its first JACK Studio Festival (January 28), a day-long marathon celebration of JACK Studio artists hosted by Mannes School of Music at The New School’s College of Performing Arts. JACK premieres new works by Amy Brandon, Michele Cheng, Andrés Guadarrama, Joy Guidry, X. Lee, and Njabulo Phungula. The Festival also includes concerts by the Kodak Quartet and the Bergamot Quartet,who will each pair performances of a past JACK Studio commission with their current repertoire.
The Kodak and Bergamot Quartets have both studied with JACK as Cuker and Stern Graduate String Quartets at Mannes School of Music, where JACK Quartet is proud to begin its fourth season as the quartet in residence. JACK will also perform a recital of their current repertoire at Mannes’ Ernst C. Stiefel Concert Hall (November 10) that will be free and open to the public.
NATIONAL
JACK starts its season amidst the spectacular landscape of Moab Music Festival, where they play two concerts featuring music by Julie Zhu, John Luther Adams, and Gabriella Smith (September 3 and 5). In October, they will be in residence at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (October 19-23) developing and performing a collaboration with Liz Gerring Dance Company and John Luther Adams. Gerring will create dance inspired by Waves and Particles, an auditory expansion of the energies that surround us all.
JACK travels to the University of Iowa (November 6-10), where the quartet will perform new commissions and hold development workshops for student composers’ works that will be performed in the Spring.
JACK’s US season continues with a program at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (January 25), featuring flutist Julietta Curenton with music by John Zorn, Caleb Burhans, and Helmut Lachenmann. Rounding out the US season are performances of Morton Feldman’s entrancing Piano and String Quartet with Amy Williams and epic concerts of music by John Zornat Big Ears Festival (April 1-2) with Yura Lee and Michael Nicholas.
INTERNATIONAL
Lim’s String Creatures weaves its magical nest of sound across two European trips this fall at the Musikfest Berlin (September 15) and Klangspuren Festival(September 24). JACK premieres works by Joan Pàmies and Erin Gee at the Barcelona String Quartet Biennale (September 17), as well as the European premiere of Eric Wubbels’ new work. JACK gives the European premiere of our latest commission of George Lewis, and the world premiere of Carolyn Chen’s echolocation-inspired Moveable Feast at the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik in Austria (October 6). A celebration of Iannis Xenakis’centenary in Berlin (October 7), London (October 8), and Copenhagen (October 11) caps JACK’s fall in Europe.
In the spring, JACK visits Wigmore Hall (April 22) for a day-long, three-concert experience including music by Eric Wubbels, Erin Gee, Caleb Burhans, John Zorn, Cenk Ergün, Helmut Lachenamnn and the European premiere of Catherine Lamb’s profound journey divisio spiralis. Next, JACK gives the German premiere divisio spiralis at the Pierre Boulez Saal (April 23) in Berlin. Other European stops include a return to the Boulez Saal (May 11), two days of concerts of John Zorn’s music in Hannover with long-time collaborators soprano Barbara Hannigan (May 13) and pianist Stephen Gosling (May 14), and a trip to Istanbul at the Borusan Music House (May 16).
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