JACK Quartet: Modern Medieval
Nov. 14, 2024
The Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street
JACK Quartet's Modern Medieval program explores the connections of musicality and thought between European composers of the past and the voices of music today, featuring works by JACK members Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, as well as Vicente Atria (JACK Studio Commission), Taylor Brook, Johnny MacMillan, and Juri Seo (JACK Studio Commission).
Program
Taylor Brook: Organum [2017]
Christopher Otto: Angelorum Psalat, after Rodericus [2011 / c. 1390]
Nicola Vicentino: Musica prisca caput // Madonna, il poco dolce [c. 1555]
Vicente Atria: Round-about [2024]
Austin Wulliman: Dave’s Hocket [2024]
Christopher Otto: Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles [2023 / 1594]
Taylor Brook: Phrygea[2017]
Christopher Otto: Fumeux fume par fumee, after Solage [2018 / c. 1390]
Juri Seo: Three Imaginary Chansons [2024]
I. Descent of the Serpent
II. Swan Song
III. Confronted Cocks and Running Dogs
Taylor Brook: Ars Nova [2017]
JACK Quartet
Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, Violins
John Pickford Richards, Viola
Jay Campbell, Cello
Undeniably our generation’s “leading new-music foursome,” JACK Quartet celebrates their landmark 20th anniversary season in 2024-2025. Through intimate, long-standing relationships with many of today’s most creative voices, JACK Quartet has a prolific commissioning and recording catalog, has been nominated for three GRAMMY® Awards, and is the 2024 recipient of Chamber Music America’s Michael Jaffee Visionary Award.
Among the highlights of the 2024-2025 season, JACK premieres new commissions by Anthony Cheung, Juri Seo, and Ellen Fullman, releases Zorn’s complete string quartets on Tzadik Records, and performs internationally at Wigmore Hall, Pierre Boulez Saal, Konzerthaus Berlin, as well as appearances in Toronto, Barcelona, and Lugano and Winterthur, Switzerland. The Quartet has performed to critical acclaim at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Berlin Philharmonie, Muziekgebouw, The Louvre, Kölner Philharmonie, the Lucerne Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Suntory Hall, Sydney Opera House, Bali Arts Festival, Festival Internacional Cervantino, and Teatro Colón, among many others. Included in their honors are an Avery Fisher Career Grant, Fromm Music Foundation Prize, and Musical America’s 2018 “Ensemble of the Year.
JACK Quartet created JACK Studio in 2019 to support commissions, recordings, and workshops with emerging music artists who are interested in exploring and expanding the repertory for string quartet. As JACK marks its 20th Anniversary Season, JACK Studio will grow to include a full range of commissions including prominent composers who will also serve as mentors to JACK Studio’s earlier-career collaborators.
JACK Quartet makes their home in NYC, where they are the Quartet in Residence at the Mannes School of Music at The New School. They teach at summer music festivals such as the Lucerne Festival Academy, Banff Centre for the Arts, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and New Music on the Point. Learn more at www.jackquartet.com.
JACK is deeply grateful for the generous support of our Board of Directors, individual donors, and foundation funders who make our work possible through general operating support. Additional support provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the National Endowment for the Arts.
