Bergen Festival: JACK Quartet + Yarn/Wire

JACK Quartet and Yarn/Wire present an evening of groundbreaking music, including the world premiere of music by Festival composer Øyvind Torvund. The program includes In the Clouds from 2023 and the world premiere of Torvund's String Quartets No. 1 and 2, both works composed for and performed by these two quartets.

JACK Quartet also performs works by two American 20th century icons, the avant-garde Morton Feldman and the pioneer Ruth Crawford Seeger, who is particularly known for her modernist string quartet. Yarn/Wire open the concert with Le monde des ronds et des carrés, written for them by Japanese composer Misato Mochizuki in 2015.

Misato Mochizuki, Le Monde des ronds et des carrés (The World of Circles and Squares)
Morton Feldman, Structures
Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet 1931
Øyvind Torvund, String Quartet no. 1 & 2 (World Premiere)
Øyvind Torvund, In the Clouds

Read more about Festival composer Øyvind Torvund here.