During the Spring semester JACK Quartet, Mannes' Ensemble-in-Residence, has been collaborating with Mannes composition students on the development and performance of new works for string quartet.

New works composed by participating students were workshopped by the JACK Quartet and will be premiered at this concert.

Program:

Alexa Letourneau: Transition of Power, I. & II.

Xinxin Tian: Quiet Shining in a Mountain Forest

JL Marlor: Heaviness of Light

Chen Shuhe Yue: When the Consciousness Burning

Xavier Muzik: Muzak

Hailed by The New York Times as the “our leading new-music foursome”, the JACK Quartet is one of the most acclaimed, renowned, and respected groups performing today. JACK has maintained an unwavering commitment toward performing and commissioning new works, giving voice to underheard composers, and cultivating an ever-greater sense of openness toward contemporary classical music. Over the past season, they have been selected as Musical America’s 2018 “Ensemble of the Year”, named to WQXR’s “19 for 19 Artists to Watch”, and awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Through intimate relationships with today’s most creative voices, JACK embraces close collaboration with the composers they perform,  leading to a radical embodiment of the technical, musical, and emotional aspects of their work. The quartet has worked with artists such as George Lewis, Julia Wolfe, Helmut Lachenmann, Chaya Czernowin, Philip Glass, and many more.

JACK is comprised of violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell.

Audience members must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and booster if eligible), ID, and remain masked at all times.