New York, NY – 10/30/14 – Italian Academy at Columbia University – Vox n Plux – USA

Concert
JACK Quartet
Featuring guest artists Vox n Plux, Steve Beck (piano), Miranda Cuckson (violin) and Jay Campbell (cello)

New music by William Anderson, Jonathan Dawe, Matthew Greenbaum, and Charles Wuorinen. With guest artists Vox n Plux, Steve Beck, piano, Miranda Cuckson, violin, and Jay Campbell, cello. With support from the Stefan Wolpe Fund and the Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music. Produced with Zaidee Parkinson & Alanna Maharajh Stone.

JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with “explosive virtuosity” (Boston Globe) and “viscerally exciting performances” (New York Times). David Patrick Stearns (Philadelphia Inquirer) proclaimed their performance as being “among the most stimulating new-music concerts of my experience.” The Washington Post commented, “The string quartet may be a 250-year-old contraption, but young, brilliant groups like the JACK Quartet are keeping it thrillingly vital.” Alex Ross (New Yorker) hailed their performance of Iannis Xenakis' complete string quartets as being “exceptional” and “beautifully harsh,” and Mark Swed (Los Angeles Times) called their sold-out performances of Georg Friedrich Haas' String Quartet No. 3 In iij. Noct. “mind-blowingly good.”