JACK Quartet at Wigmore Hall

JACK Quartet returns to London’s Wigmore Hall - giving three performances in one day - 11:30am, 3:00pm, 7:30pm

Concert 1 Program:
Philip Glass, String Quartet No. 5
Heinz Holliger, String Quartet No. 2

Concert 2 Program:
Elliott Carter, String Quartet No. 5
Eduardo Aguilar, HYPER
Helmut Lachenmann, String Quartet No. 3 'Grido'

Concert 3 Program:
Pierre Boulez, Livre pour quatuor: 1b
Eva-Maria Houben, Nothing More
Pierre Boulez, Livre pour quatuor: 3c
Anton Webern, 6 Bagatellen Op. 9
John Cage, String Quartet in 4 Parts
Pierre Boulez, Livre pour quatuor: 1a
Austin Wulliman, Escape Rites (UK Premiere)
Anthony Cheung, Twice Removed (UK Premiere)
Pierre Boulez, Livre pour quatuor: 2

Anthony Cheung’s Twice Removed was commissioned by JACK Quartet with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, The 92nd Street Y, and Wigmore Hall.

Boulez 100

Pierre Boulez’s Livre pour quatuor is rich with musical complexity and radical thinking, a vast statement from a provactive young composer. At the same time, the score—left unfinished—also has a fragmentary quality. JACK performs individual movements from Boulez’s only string quartet, creating fragmentary conversation between them and their predecesor Anton Webern's Six Bagatelles and the recent, aphoristic Nothing More by Eva­-Maria Houben. Anthony Cheung's richly expressive Twice Removed provides a further take on multi-layered artistic expressions, while Austin Wulliman's Escape Rites draws its inspiration from Boulez' friendship with John Cage, who wrote his String Quartet in Four Parts while corresponding with Boulez, who was writing his Livre.

Program:
Pierre Boulez, Livre pour quatuor (Excerpts)
Eva-Maria Houben, Nothing More for String Quartet
Anton Webern, Six Bagatelles for String Quartet Op. 9
John Cage, String Quartet in Four Parts
Austin Wulliman, Escape Rites
Anthony Cheung, Twice Removed

Anthony Cheung’s Twice Removed was commissioned by JACK Quartet with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, 92nd Street Y, and Wigmore Hall.

JACK Quartet at the Mariposa Series

The neglected, though not forgotten rites of the Medieval musical arts illuminate the musical manuscript anew as JACK explores the connections of musicality and thought between European composers of the past and the voices of American music today. The mysterious Rodericus and satirical Solage are viewed anew through the lens of JACK’s own masterful arranger Christopher Otto. Meanwhile, pieces by JACK’s friends connect us to our musical forebears, using ancient harmonies, imitations, games, and secret messages as the jumping off point for unexpected journeys through magical, amorous, and dangerous tales.

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]
Johnny MacMillan, Songs from the Seventh Floor [2021]
Christopher Otto, Fumeux fume par fumee, after Solage [2018 / c. 1390]
Juri Seo, Three Imaginary Chansons [2024]
Taylor Brook, Ars Nova [2017]

JACK Quartet at The New School

As the Mannes School of Music Ensemble-in-Residence, JACK Quartet will give a recital at The Auditorium at The New School. 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.

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]
Taylor Brook, Ars Nova [2017]

This concert is free and open to the general public.

Carnegie Hall Citywide: JACK Quartet

This July, in conjunction with Rose B. Simpson’s exhibition Seed, Carnegie Hall plans a stunning range of free outdoor concerts on the Oval Lawn of Madison Square Park as musicians take the stage. Planned in collaboration with the Cuban-born visionary composer Tania León, the program features music by American composers who redefine string quartet repertoire.

Austin Wulliman, Dave's Hocket (2024)
Caroline Shaw, Entre'acte (2011)
Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet (1931)
Christopher Otto, Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles
Gabriella Smith, Carrot Revolution (2015)

Picnic blankets and lawn chairs are encouraged!

Carrot Revolution: Works by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Morton Feldman, Gabriella Smith, and others

Austin Wulliman, Dave's Hocket
Gabriella Smith, Carrot Revolution for String Quartet
Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet 1931
Morton Feldman, Structures for String Quartet
Cenk Ergün, Sonare for String Quartet

Modern Medieval
JACK Quartet gives three performances at Wigmore Hall in one day - 11:30am, 3:00pm, 7:30pm

Concert 1 Program:
Christopher Otto, Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles (UK Premiere)
Amy Williams, Tangled Madrigal (UK Premiere)
Elliott Carter, String Quartet No. 1

Concert 2 Program:
Juri Seo, Three Imaginary Chansons (UK Premiere)
Johnny MacMillan, Songs From the Seventh Floor (UK Premiere)
Nicola Vicentino, Madonna il poco dolce
Vicente Atria, Roundabout (World Premiere)

Concert 3 Program:
Austin Wulliman, Dave's Hocket (UK Premiere)
Gabriella Smith, Carrot Revolution
Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet 1931
Morton Feldman, Structures
Cenk Ergün, Sonare
Liza Lim, String Creatures (UK Premiere)

Art of Elan and Art Power present the JACK Quartet

Art of Elan and Art Power’s first-ever collaboration brings JACK Quartet to San Diego for an evening of music titled “Modern Medieval” at The Loft in UC San Diego, where connections of musicality and thought between European composers of the past and the voices of American music today are explored in this one-hour program.

Austin Wulliman, Dave's Hocket
Caroline Shaw, Entre'acte
Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet 1931
Morton Feldman, Structures
Gabriella Smith, Carrot Revolution

*Doors and Bar 7pm, Concert 8pm

Melbourne Recital Centre

JACK Quartet brings two eclectic programs in one night to the Melbourne Recital Centre’s Elisabeth Murdoch Hall.

7pm: JACK Quartet – String Creatures
Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet 1931
Elliott Carter, String Quartet No.1
Liza Lim, String Creatures (Australian Premiere)

9pm: JACK Quartet – Up Late
Juri Seo, Three Imaginary Chansons (World Premiere)
Johnny MacMillan, Songs from the Seventh Floor
Christopher Otto, Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles
Caleb Burhans, Contritus
Austin Wulliman, Dave’s Hocket (World Premiere)
Gabriella Smith, Carrot Revolution

Liza Lim’s String Creatures is co-commissioned by the Lucerne Festival, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, and Melbourne Recital Centre.

JACK Quartet at Constellation

Austin Wulliman, The Late Edition (2024) 
Christopher Otto, Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles
John Zorn, Necronomicon
Amy Williams, Tangled Madrigal (2024)
Iannis Xenakis, Tetras

Concert Preview: JACK Quartet returns to Chicago with a program that looks forward and backward - Chicago Reader

Album Release: Austin Wulliman: The News From Utopia

The News From Utopia is JACK violinist Austin Wulliman's debut album as composer. The record is a solo project built from many multi-tracked layers of Wulliman, which he composed, recorded and mixed.

The live experience will incorporate electronics built of samples from the album, as well as live performances from JACK Quartet and video by JACK Studio artist Iván Decoud. Additionally, the concert includes the US Premiere of Down Pat for electric guitar and electronics, written for the unique talents of guitarist and composer Alec Goldfarb.

The News is built from a web of musical conspiracy theories that coalesce into imagery and a nonlinear network of narrative. A field of pixels comes into focus, a series of images scroll past your phone screen, a dark veil falls over the noonday sun, a nightscape of the desert melts into the sea roiling with whitecaps and you wake up with your heart racing, eyes wide. Wulliman's latest work, Down Pat, tunes the guitar to the electrical ground, using MIDI interface to control an extended ratio-based tuning system. 50 hz, 60 hz, 440 hz and an increasing concatenation of 11s and 5s and 3s build a network of polyrhythm, harmony, and scalar logics that our plugged-in guitar hero embodies: the king is his castle. The performance also features a video premiere by Argentinian multimedia artist Iván Decoud for the track BLINK.

Program: all by Austin Wulliman

SYSTEM NOTES (2023) – World Premiere for string quartet and electronics
BLINK (2022) – World Premiere for string quartet, electric guitar and electronics
Down Pat (2023) – US Premiere for electric guitar and electronics
-Alec Goldfarb, guitar
The Late Edition (2023) - World Premiere for string quartet
Lost One (2024) — World Premiere for string quartet
The Docks (2022) – World Premiere for string quartet and electronics
The News From Utopia (ii) (2024) – World Premiere for string quartet and electronics