JACK Quartet Announces 2025-2026 Season

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 JACK Quartet Announces 2025-2026 Season

 

Performances at The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), REDCAT with LA Phil Insight, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frick Collection, Buffalo Chamber Music Society, Cal Performances, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

 

 JACK Celebrates the 90th Birthday of Musical Mentor Helmut Lachenmann at Miller Theatre at Columbia University, Plus National and International Performances of Lachenmann's Work

 

European Tour to Pierre Boulez Saal, Festival Musica – Strasbourg, open music, 

Festival d’Automne, NOW! Festival, and MaerzMusik, Plus Return to Wigmore Hall for JACK’s Annual Concert Series

 

Featured Performer at Anthony Cheung Composer Portrait at Miller Theatre at Columbia University

 

Recording Terry Riley's The Holy Liftoff with flutist Claire Chase, Album Release From Sono Luminus in 2026

 

Residencies at MetLiveArts, the University of Iowa School of Music, and Mizzou New Music Initiative; Plus Quartet-in-Residence at the Mannes School of Music

 

JACK Studio Enters Its Seventh Year Supporting Emerging Artists 

 

“our leading new-music foursome” – The New York Times

“among the finest new-music groups on Earth”– San Francisco Classical Voice

www.jackquartet.com

New York, NY (September 4, 2025) – Praised for their “once in a lifetime” (Musical America) performances, the GRAMMY®-nominated JACK Quartet, comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, announces their 2025-2026 season. JACK is a pioneering string quartet synchronized in their mission to create an international community through transformative, mind-broadening experiences and close listening. Called “one of contemporary music’s indispensable ensembles” by The New York Times, JACK’s season highlights include an exciting range of projects focused on the creative work that JACK has built in its two decades of existence, while continuing to build their community of collaborators through a dense year of touring and recording activity. At the heart of that activity is the ever-expanding JACK Studio initiative, which fosters the creative growth of emerging composers and supports JACK’s commissioning efforts with established voices in the field.

JACK Quartet made their Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival debut on August 1-2, 2025 at the New Mexico Museum of Art. The debut comprised of two evenings of music, including world premiere festival commissions by Ania Vu and Tyson Gholston Davis, both participating in the Festival’s 12th annual Young Composers String Quartet Project, and a new work by JACK Studio Artist-in-Residence Keir GoGwilt, premiering as part of JACK’s Modern Medieval program. 

JACK returned to TIME:SPANS in NYC with two programs: the world premiere of Studio Artist-in-Residence Nursalim Yadi Anugerah’s Aphid and a Palm on the Top of Orange Cliff for string quartet and computer-controlled kadedek—a traditional Borneo mouth organ instrument—on Sunday, August 10, 2025, and the full cycle of Rand Steiger’s work written for JACK over the last five years, performed on August 12, 2025. 

In September 2025, JACK will record the legendary minimalist Terry Riley's The Holy Liftoff with flutist Claire Chase, who spearheads the project, which was realized by the composer Samuel Clay Birmaher in collaboration with Riley. Slated for release in 2026 on the Sono Luminus label, the work includes a many-layered orchestra of flutes alongside Chase and JACK's live performance, which ranges from playfully improvisatory to intricately patterned.

In September, JACK begins their fall European tour, which features three long-term collaborations. On Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM, JACK performs “String Quartets by Lachenmann, Iannotta, and Dreyer” at Pierre Boulez Saal. Close collaborators of Helmut Lachenmann since their formation, JACK performs his Gran Torso and Grido. Their program also includes Clara Iannotta’s dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii), and the world premiere of Doldrums, inertia by Danish composer Mads Emil Dreyer. Then, on Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 7:00pm, JACK presents the European premiere of Natacha Diels’ Beautiful Trouble, a concert-length multimedia performance piece at Festival Musica – Strasbourg. JACK’s engagement at Strasbourg continues with a recital highlighting their work with John Luther Adams, soundscape composer and ardent environmentalist, on Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM, including the European premiere of Adams’ Lines Made by Walking. 

On this trip, JACK also embarks on the first of three recitals throughout the fall at the Festival d’Automne à Paris (Paris Autumn Festival), where they will be the “Portrait Musicians.” On September 25, 2025 at 7 PM, JACK performs in the world premiere of legendary instrument builder Ellen Fullman’s Energy Archive 2, offering a deeply personal performance on a sculptural scale. Fullman’s work is a monumental achievement, requiring days of installation for her long string instrument before the first rehearsal can even take place. Energy Archive 2 was created over four years of collaborative rehearsals between Fullman and the members of JACK. Then, on Wednesday November 5, 2025 at 9 PM at Silvia Monfort Theater, JACK performs Natacha Diels’ Beautiful Trouble, in the frame of Festival d’Automne à Paris, which was devised for and with the JACK Quartet and does away with the dividing line between life and the work itself, playing around with the hypnotic omnipresence of images. Wrapping up their engagement with Festival d’Automne à Paris is JACK’s performance of Georg Friedrich Haas’ In iij Noct, a string quartet performed in absolute darkness, on Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 3 PM at Théâtre des Abesses. 

On Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM, JACK celebrates the 90th birthday of their musical mentor Helmut Lachenmann—the iconic visionary who has profoundly shaped the landscape of modern classical music—with a performance of his complete works for string quartet at New York City’s Miller Theatre at Columbia University. Recognized as the most important living German composer, bringing Lachenmann’s work to NYC represents a cultural bridge, as well as a landmark in cutting-edge string writing, as JACK is among the very few ensembles globally to have mastered his unique performance techniques.

On Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM, JACK returns to Europe and performs the complete string quartets of Clara Iannotta at the Philharmonie Essen for the NOW! Festival. The four string quartets (recorded by JACK in 2020) by Italian composer Clara Iannotta combine brilliantly captivating soundscapes with mysterious, grounded stories, fitting this year's NOW! theme, "elements." JACK will also perform Lachenmann’s String Quartet No. 2 Reigen seliger Geister.

Next, on Friday November 7, 2025 at 8pm, JACK performs the complete quartets of Lachenmann for his 90th birthday celebration at the Museum of Perception (MUWA) for open music in Graz, Austria. open music, founded in the early 1990s as a concert series in Graz, stands for "communication of today's music," contemporary music in the sense of contemporary relevant musical art and culture that goes beyond the strict division into genre and aesthetic preferences.

JACK performs with composer and pianist Amy Williams at the Buffalo Chamber Music Society on Tuesday, November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM. The program includes Williams’ works Cineshapes 2, and Tangled Madrigal, as well as JACK violinist Christopher Otto’s Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles, and Nicola Vicentino’s Musica Prisca Caput. The concert will be at Kleinhans Music Hall, with a pre-concert talk starting at 6:45 PM.

On Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM, JACK is featured in a Composer Portrait of Anthony Cheung at Miller Theatre at Columbia University. Experience the captivating music of Anthony Cheung, whose work reveals an interest in the ambiguity of sound sources and shifting transformations of tuning and timbre. An all-star lineup is featured as well as JACK—flutist Claire Chase and quartet Yarn/Wire join Cheung for a dynamic program of recent works. The centerpiece of this program will be Cheung’s Twice Removed, which was commissioned through JACK Studio in 2024. 

At the end of November, JACK performs in several international engagements. On Friday, November 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM, JACK again plays Haas’ In iij Noct – String Quartet No. 3, this time in Katowice, Poland at the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Then on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, JACK heads to Bern, Switzerland to perform Chaya Czernowin’s Hidden at Hochschule der Künste Bern. Finally, JACK appears at Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy on Friday, November 28, 2025 to perform Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 5, John Zorn’s Remedy of Fortune, and Catherine Lamb’s String Quartet 

n.1 (two blooms). 

Back in the United States, on Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM, JACK and pianist Shai Wosner come together for a program of virtuosic music for piano and string quartet at The Frick Collection. The program includes Henry Purcell’s Fantasy upon one note; Ruth Crawford Seeger’s String Quartet 1931; Wolfgang Rihm’s Interscriptum; Christopher Otto’s Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles; Amy Williams’ Cineshapes 2; George Benjamin’s Relativity Rag; and Thomas Adès’ Piano Quintet. 

JACK starts 2026 with a performance at the University of Buffalo of Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet with pianist Amy Williams on Monday January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM, which is Feldman’s birthdate, celebrating his centenary. The concert also includes Iannis Xenakis’s piece Akéa with pianist Eric Huebner. This is followed by a performance of student composers’ works on Tuesday, January 13, 2026. 

Next, JACK travels back to Europe on Friday, January 16, 2026 for a performance of Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet, this time with pianist Florence Millet at Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden in Wuppertal, Germany. This performance is in celebration of the January release of Piano and String Quartet on the Berlin-based label bastille musique.

Back in the United States, the quartet will perform the world premiere of a new work commissioned by VMFA from Ellen Fullman at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond on Friday, January 23, 2026. As the closing program for the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Cardbirds, Fullman will debut a composition celebrating Rauschenberg’s practice as a groundbreaking artist who experimented with movement and material. The commission and exhibition, on the advent of the artist’s centennial celebration, are sponsored by a grant from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. 

On Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 7:00 PM, JACK performs their Modern Medieval program at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA, featuring works such as Taylor Brook’s Organum and Phrygea; Christopher Otto’s Angelorum Psalat, after Rodericus, and Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles; Nicola Vicentino’s Musica prisca caput and Madonna, il poco dolce; Austin Wulliman’s Dave's Hocket; and Vicente Atria’s Round-about.

On Saturday, February 7, 2026, JACK returns to Wigmore Hall for their annual three-concert day with performances at 11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, and 7:30 PM. The first concert will consist of Catherine Lamb’s Two Blooms; the second, Hans Abrahamsen’s String Quartet No. 4 and Wolfgang Rihm’s Im Innersten; the final concert includes Helmut Lachenmann’s pieces Grido, Mes Adieux, Gran Torso, and Reigen seliger Geister. 

Next, JACK performs at Cal Performances at UC Berkeley (Cal Performances Ensemble Debut) on Sunday, March 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM at Hertz Hall in Berkeley, CA. Here, JACK performs the world premiere of Gabriella Smith’s Aegolius, as well as performing a piece from JACK’s own Austin Wulliman—The Late Edition. Also on the program is Keir GoGwilt’s Treatise on Limited Freedoms: Future Mode 1 and Wolfgang Rihm’s String Quartet No. 3 "Im Innersten", as well as European luminary Hans Abrahamsen’s String Quartet no. 4.

On Friday, March 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM, JACK performs some of the fruits of its JACK Studio program at the The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY)’s Buttenwieser Hall at The Arnhold Center, featuring world premieres of Oblique for string quartet and electronics by Tristan Perich, which continues the composer’s ongoing exploration between acoustic and electronic sound; and new works from Jules Reidy and Ailie Ormston. Treatise on Limited Freedoms by Keir GoGwilt will also be performed during the concert. GoGwilt, Reidy, and Ormston’s works are the culmination of composers’ two-year Artist Residencies with JACK Studio, which supports the development of new works for string quartet that will expand both the vocabulary and audience for these new quartets through their relationships with folk, alternative, and electro-pop styles. Online streaming will also be available for 72 hours following the performance.

JACK performs Ellen Fullman’s Energy Archive at MaerzMusik in Berlin, Germany on Monday, March 23, 2026. MaerzMusik cherishes a legacy of boundary-crossing creativity, thriving between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the classical and the postmodern, fixed genres and genre-bending. 

On Monday, April 6 to Wednesday, April 8, 2026 JACK is in residence at the University of Missouri, Mizzou New Music Initiative, followed by a recital on April 8, 2026, collaborating with student composers on new works and presenting a recital of works written for JACK, including music by Anthony Cheung, Clara Iannotta, and Amy Williams. This is the first year of a planned 3-year residency at Mizzou for JACK. 

JACK once again performs Georg Friedrich Haas’ In iij. Noct. – String Quartet No. 3 in total darkness, this time at REDCAT in Los Angeles, CA on Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM as part of the LA Phil’s Body and Sound: Music In Five Senses festival. Georg Friedrich Haas’s visionary string quartet is designed to be performed in total darkness, creating a uniquely physical concert experience. In the words of the quartet’s “darkness rider” for these works, “The outline of one’s hand will ideally not be visible even when directly in front of their face. The darkness is absolute, and the effect is disorienting: an audience member feels they have become absorbed in an India ink level of blackness with no visual cues to demarcate the size and shape of the space or their relation to it.” 

On Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 9 PM, JACK heads back to Europe for Only Connect Oslo to perform Natacha Diels’ Beautiful Trouble at Kulturkirken Jakob. 

In their 25-26 season, JACK has several residences, including the Quartet in Residence at MetLiveArts, offering performances at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. For their inaugural concert of the residency on December 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM and 8:15 PM, JACK will perform a holiday-season homage to medieval music in the Romanesque Hall at The Met Cloisters. This program of new and old works is inspired by the most daring musical experiments of the Middle Ages. 

JACK continues their long-standing relationship at the University of Iowa School of Music for the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program with residencies in December 2025 and March 2026. JACK will workshop drafts by student composers, teach chamber music, and give a recital of student works on Wednesday, March 11 at 8:30 PM, which will also be livestreamed here.

As the Quartet-in-Residence at the Mannes School of Music, JACK will perform two free concerts open to the general public in the fall and spring. These concerts will feature a mix of modernist classics as well as the latest creations from JACK Studio Artists. 

JACK Studio was created by JACK Quartet in 2019 to support commissions, recordings, and workshops with emerging music artists who are interested in exploring and expanding the repertory for string quartet. Building on their established success, JACK increased the reach of JACK Studio in 2025 to support commissions for string quartet by prominent composers with two-year paid residencies for emerging composers and annual reading sessions of existing string quartets by emerging composers. In their 25-26 season, JACK will welcome two new Artists-in-Residence who will be selected through a free and open application process. Through workshops, rehearsals, and mentorships with established composers, these artists will embark on the process of creating new works with JACK. Studio Readings with eight to ten artists with existing works for string quartet will take place in December 2025. These sessions will be recorded, and the artists are welcome to use the audiovisual documentation for their professional advancement. The recorded Readings sessions are made available for viewing on JACK’s website and YouTube channel, providing additional visibility and outreach for this group of emerging composers. 

This season, JACK will also begin development on a new work with NYC-based composer and improviser Charmaine Lee, which will incorporate electronics and string quartet. JACK will welcome the general public to share in the development process with Lee by holding open rehearsals at the Mannes School of Music. 

JACK Quartet 2025-2026 Season Calendar

Friday, August 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
St. Francis Auditorium | Santa Fe, NM
Link: santafechambermusic.org/concert/new-music-with-the-jack-quartet/

 

Program:
Anthony Cheung – Twice Removed
Ania Vu – Unveiling for String Quartet [Festival Commission, World Premiere]
Tyson Gholston Davis – ...echoes of river and mist... for String Quartet [Festival Commission, World Premiere]
Helmut Lachenmann – String Quartet No. 3 "Grido"

 

Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
St. Francis Auditorium | Santa Fe, NM
Link: santafechambermusic.org/concert/renaissance-music-w-jack-quartet/

 

Program:
Modern Medieval
Christopher Otto – after Rodericus, Angelorum Psalat
Juri Seo – Three Imaginary Chansons
Christopher Otto – after Solage, Fumeux par fumée
Keir GoGwilt* – Treatise on Limited Freedoms: Future Mode 1 [World Premiere]
Christopher Otto – after Nathanial Giles, Miserere
Caleb Burhans – Contritus
*JACK Studio Artist-in-Residence

 

Sunday, August 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
TIME:SPANS Festival
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Mary Flagler Cary Hall | New York, NY
Link: timespans.org/concert/jack-quartet-nursalim-yadi-anugerah/

Program:
Nursalim Yadi Anugerah – Aphid and a Palm on the Top of Orange Cliff [World Premiere]
JACK Studio Artist-in-Residence

 

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
TIME:SPANS Festival
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Mary Flagler Cary Hall | New York, NY
Link: timespans.org/concert/jack-quartet-rand-steiger/

 

Program:
Rand Steiger – Introspective Trilogy [World Premiere]
I. Undone (2016)
II. Inward (2017)
III. Rage/Resolve (2025)

 

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM

JACK Quartet with String Quartets by Lachenmann, Iannotta, and Dreyer
Pierre Boulez Saal | Berlin, Germany
Link: www.boulezsaal.de/en/event/jack-quartet-593151

 

Program:
Mads Emil Dreyer – Doldrums, intertia [World Premiere]
Helmut Lachenmann – String Quartet No. 3 "Grido"
Clara Iannotta – dead wasps in the jam-jar iii
Helmut Lachenmann – String Quartet No. 1 "Gran Torso"

 

Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Festival d’Automne à Paris and Pinault Collection
La Bourse de Commerce | Paris, France
Link: www.festival-automne.com/en/edition-2025/jack-quartet-ellen-fullman-konrad-sprenger 

 

Program:
Ellen Fullman – Energy Archive 2 [World Premiere]

Ellen Fullman, long string instrument

JACK Quartet

 

Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Festival Musica – Strasbourg
Maillon Theater | Strasbourg, France
Link: https://festivalmusica.fr/en/show/1696.beautiful-trouble 

Program:
Natacha Diels – Beautiful Trouble [European Premiere]

Episode 1 – On Monday

Episode 2 – Nightmare for JACK (a ballet)

Episode 3 – Sometimes it’s the Last Time

Episode 4 – An Incredible Easy Method That Works For All (Auto-Pilot)

 

Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Festival Musica – Strasbourg
Église du bouclier | Strasbourg, France
Link: https://festivalmusica.fr/en/show/1690.john-luther-adams 

 

Program:
John Luther Adams – Wind in High Places
John Luther Adams – Lines Made by Walking [European Premiere]

 

Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Composer Portraits: Helmut Lachenmann, Complete String Quartets featuring JACK Quartet
Miller Theatre | New York, NY
Link: www.millertheatre.com/events/helmut-lachenmann-complete-string-quartets

 

Program:
Helmut Lachenmann Composer Portrait
String Quartet No. 1 Gran Torso (1971/78/88)
String Quartet No. 2 Reigen seliger Geister (1989)
String Quartet No. 3 Grido (2001)

Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Essen Philharmonic Hall Presents NOW! Festival – Chamber Music featuring JACK Quartet
Essen Philharmonic Hall | Essen, Germany
Link: www.theater-essen.de/programm/kalender/jack-quartet-145317/3144/

 

Program:
Helmut Lachenmann – String Quartet No. 2 "Reigen seliger Geister"
Clara Iannotta – A Failed Entertainment

Clara Iannotta - dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii)

Clara Iannotta - Earthling — dead wasps (obituary)

Clara Iannotta - You crawl over seas of granite

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Festival d’Automne à Paris and Théâtre Silvia Monfort Presents JACK Quartet & Natacha Diels
Théâtre Silvia Monfort | Paris, France
Link: www.festival-automne.com/en/tickets/spectacle?id_spectacle=2491&lng=2&id_event=13297

 

Program:
Natacha Diels – Beautiful Trouble

Friday, November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
open music
Museum of Perception MUWA | Graz, Austria
Link: www.openmusic.at/programm/2025/07112025

Program:
Helmut Lachenmann – String Quartet No. 3 "Grido" (2001)
Helmut Lachenmann – String Quartet No. 1 "Gran Torso" (1972)
Helmut Lachenmann – String Quartet No. 2 "Reigen seliger Geister" (1989)

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Buffalo Chamber Music Society
Kleinhans Hall | Buffalo, NY
Link: www.bflochambermusic.org/shopping/tickets.php#!/Jack-Quartet-with-pianist-composer-Amy-Williams/p/195985054

Program:
Christopher Otto – Angelorum Psalat, after Rodericus
Amy Williams – Cineshapes 2
Christopher Otto – Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles
Amy Williams – Bells and Whistles (2023)
Nicola Vicentino – Musica Prisca Caput
Amy Williams – Tangled Madrigal (2024)

Amy Williams, piano

JACK Quartet

 

Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Composer Portraits: Anthony Cheung featuring JACK Quartet 

Miller Theatre | New York, NY
Link: www.millertheatre.com/events/anthony-cheung

Program:
Anthony Cheung – Improvised Intro for piano
Anthony Cheung – Twice Removed
Anthony Cheung – Tactile Values
Anthony Cheung – The Real Book of Fake Tunes

Claire Chase, flute
Yarn/Wire
JACK Quartet

Friday, November 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Presents JACK Quartet
NOSPR Concert Hall | Katowice, Poland
Link: https://nospr.org.pl/en/kalendarz/muzyka-najnowsza-jack-quartet

Program:
Georg Friedrich Haas – In iij. Noct. – String Quartet No. 3

Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM

Festival d’Automne à Paris and Théâtre de la Ville Presents JACK Quartet, Georg Friedrich Haas
Théâtre des Abbesses | Paris, France
Link: www.festival-automne.com/en/tickets/spectacle?id_spectacle=2525&lng=2&id_event=13509

 

Program:
Georg Friedrich Haas – In iij. Noct. – String Quartet No. 3

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Hochschule der Künste Bern

Venue TBD | Bern, Switzerland 

 

Chaya Czernowin – Hidden 

 

Friday, November 28, 2025
Accademia Musicale Chigiana
Venue TBD | Siena, Italy
Link: www.chigiana.org

Program:
Philip Glass – String Quartet No. 5
John Zorn – Remedy of Fortune (2016)
Catherine Lamb – String Quartet No. 1 (two blooms) (2009)

 

Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Frick Collection
Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium | New York, NY
Link: www.frick.org/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view=event&eventid=186441637

Program:
Henry Purcell – Fantasy upon one note
Ruth Crawford Seeger – String Quartet 1931
Wolfgang Rihm – Interscriptum
Christopher Otto – Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles
Amy Williams – Cineshapes #2
George Benjamin – Relativity Rag
Thomas Adès – Piano Quintet

Shai Wosner, piano

JACK Quartet

December 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM & 8:15 PM

JACK Quartet: Modern/Medieval

Romanesque Hall | The Met Cloisters

Link: https://engage.metmuseum.org/events/metlivearts/2025-26-season/jack-quartet-modernmedieval/ 

 

Program To Include Works By:

Nathaniel Giles

Christopher Otto

Rodericus

Nicola Vicentino

Austin Wulliman

 

Monday, January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM & Tuesday, January 13, 2026
University of Buffalo
Lippes Concert Hall | Buffalo, NY
Link: www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2025/08/music-season-preview.html 

Program:
Morton Feldman – Piano and String Quartet

Iannis Xenakis – Akea (for piano and string quartet)

Amy Williams, piano

Eric Huebner, piano

JACK Quartet

 

Friday, January 16, 2026
Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden
Venue TBD | Wuppertal, Germany

Program:

Morton Feldman – Piano and String Quartet

Florence Millet, piano

JACK Quartet

 

Friday, January 23, 2026 (Time TBA)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Cochrane Atrium | Richmond, VA
Link: www.vmfa.museum/exhibitions/rewind-fast-forward 

Program:

Ellen Fullman – New Work [World Premiere, Commissioned by VMFA]

Ellen Fullman, long string instrument

JACK Quartet

 

Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Washington and Lee University Presents The Concert Guild and Lenfest Series: JACK Quartet, Modern Medieval
Lenfest Center | Lexington, VA
Link: https://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center/jack-quartet 

Program:

Taylor Brook – Organum

Christopher Otto – Angelorum Psalat, after Rodericus

Nicola Vicentino – Musica prisca caput // Madonna, il poco dolce

Austin Wulliman – Dave's Hocket

Vicente Atria – Round-about

Christopher Otto – Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles

Taylor Brook – Phrygea

Johnny MacMillan – Songs from the Seventh Floor

Christopher Otto – Fumeux fume par fumee, after Solage

Juri Seo – Three Imaginary Chansons

Taylor Brook – Ars Nova

 

Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 11:30 AM, 3:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Wigmall Presents JACK Quartet
Wigmore Hall | London, UK
Link: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/

 

Program: 

11:30 AM

Catherine Lamb  – String Quartet No. 1 (Two Blooms) 

 

3:00 PM

Hans Abrahamsen  – String Quartet No. 4

Wolfgang Rihm  – Im Innersten

 

7:30 PM

Helmut Lachenmann  – Grido

Helmut Lachenmann  – Mes Adieux 

Helmut Lachenmann  – Gran Torso

Helmut Lachenmann  – Reigen seliger Geister

 

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 8:30 PM
University of Iowa String Quartet Presents JACK Quartet
Voxman Recital Hall | Iowa City, IA
Link: https://events.uiowa.edu/event/32417 | 

Live Stream Link: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

Program: 

Works by student composers

 

Sunday, March 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Cal Performances Ensemble Debut
Hertz Hall | UC Berkeley, CA
Link: calperformances.org/events/2025-26/orchestra-chamber-music/jack-quartet/

Program:

Austin Wulliman - The Late Edition [West Coast Premiere]

Keir GoGwilt - Treatise on Limited Freedoms: Future Mode 1 [West Coast Premiere]

Hans Abrahamsen - String Quartet no. 4

Gabriella Smith - Aegolius [World Premiere]

Wolfgang Rihm - String Quartet No. 3 "Im Innersten" 

 

Friday, March 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM
The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) Presents JACK Quartet
Buttenwieser Hall at The Arnhold Center | New York, NY
Link: www.92ny.org/event/jack-quartet 

Program:

Tristan Perich – Oblique* for string quartet and electronics [World Premiere]

Keir GoGwilt** – Treatise on Limited Freedoms: Future Mode 1

Jules Reidy** – Shadow Symmetric  [World Premiere]

Ailie Ormston** – New Work  [World Premiere]
**JACK Studio Artist-in-Residence

 

*Commissioned by JACK Quartet through JACK Studio with the support of The 92nd Street Y, New York and the New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Commission Grant with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

 

Monday, March 23, 2026
Maerzmusik
Venue TBD | Berlin, Germany
Link: www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/maerzmusik 

 

Program:

Ellen Fullman – Energy Archive 

 

Monday, April 6–Wednesday, April 8, 2026 

University of Missouri, Mizzou New Music Initiative
Venue TBD | Columbia, MO
Link: newmusic.missouri.edu/

Program: 

Works by Student Composers

Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Body and Sound: Music In Five Senses
REDCAT | Los Angeles, CA
Link: www.redcat.org/

Program:

Georg Friedrich Haas – In iij. Noct. – String Quartet No. 3

 

Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 9:00 PM

Only Connect Oslo
Kulturkirken Jakob | Oslo, Norway
Link: onlyconnect.no/

 

Program:

Natacha Diels – Beautiful Trouble

 

About JACK Quartet

Undeniably our generation’s “leading new-music foursome,” JACK Quartet’s “stylistic range, precision and passion have made the group one of contemporary music’s indispensable ensembles” (The New York Times). Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, JACK Quartet enters their third decade as a pioneering string quartet synchronized in their mission to create an international community through transformative, mind-broadening experiences and close listening. Founded in 2005, JACK Quartet operates as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the performance, commissioning, and appreciation of 20th and 21st century string quartet music, delving deeply into challenging new compositions and musical practices from a staggering range of stylistic viewpoints. 

JACK Quartet has been awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, Fromm Music Foundation Prize, Musical America’s 2019 “Ensemble of the Year” Award, Lincoln Center's Martin E. Segal Award, New Music USA's Trailblazer Award, CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, 2024 Chamber Music America’s Michael Jaffee Visionary Award, and the Italian Music Critic's Prize as the Best Ensemble of 2024.

Among the highlights of their 2025-2026 U.S. season, JACK Quartet returns to NYC’s 92NY for a concert featuring new works by JACK Studio Resident Artists Kier GoGwilt, Ailie Ormston, and Jules Reidy and a world premiere by Tristan Perich for string quartet and electronics; a performance at Miller Theatre at Columbia University celebrating the 90th birthday of their musical mentor Helmut Lachenmann; a Cal Performances ensemble debut with a world premiere by Gabriella Smith; a multi-concert residency at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; collaborative work with Ellen Fullman and her long-stringed instrument commissioned by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond; and an appearance at Big Ears Festival with soprano Barbara Hannigan.

International engagements include three concerts at Festival d’Automne (Paris), where JACK Quartet serve as the “Portrait Musicians” of the festival, performing European premieres by Natacha Diels and Ellen Fullman, as well as Georg Friedrich Haas’ In iij Noct, performed in absolute darkness; JACK Quartet’s annual three-concert day-long marathon at Wigmore Hall (UK); and appearances at Pierre Boulez Saal (Germany), Instituzione Universitaria dei Concerti (Italy), Musica Festival Strasbourg (France), Open Music Graz (Austria), Only Connect Oslo (Norway), and Hochschule der Künste Bern (Switzerland), among others. 

JACK Quartet embraces close collaboration with the composers whose work they perform, yielding a radical embodiment of the technical, musical, and emotional aspects of their work. JACK Quartet has both self-commissioned and been commissioned to create new works with artists such as Philip Glass, Georg Friedrich Haas, Liza Lim, Caroline Shaw, and John Zorn, with upcoming and recent premieres by John Luther Adams, Ellen Fullman, Catherine Lamb, George Lewis, Andrew Norman, Terry Riley, Gabriella Smith, and Tyshawn Sorey.

Through intimate, long-standing relationships with many of today’s most creative voices, JACK Quartet has a prolific recording catalog and has been nominated for two GRAMMY® Awards, the most recent being Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for John Luther Adams’ Waves and Particles. According to Musical America, “many of their recordings are must-haves, for anyone interested in new music.” Other albums include music by Zosha di Castri, Nick Dunston, Jason Eckardt, Helmut Lachenmann, Liza Lim, Christopher Otto, Austin Wulliman, Du Yun, Iannis Xenakis, the complete string quartets of John Zorn and an upcoming release of the complete quartets of Elliott Carter.

JACK Studio was created by JACK Quartet in 2019 to support commissions, recordings, and workshops with emerging music artists who are interested in exploring and expanding the repertory for string quartet. In 2024, JACK Studio expanded to support commissions for string quartet by prominent composers, two-year paid residencies for emerging composers, and annual reading sessions of existing string quartets by emerging composers. By bringing together diverse groups of excellent and adventurous people to not only create new projects, but to contribute to the evolution of the JACK Studio project itself, JACK has created an artistic ecosystem that links the quartet with artists from around the world. 

More than 40 composers have worked with JACK Quartet through JACK Studio thus far, hailing from Argentina, Belarus, Canada, Germany, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, South Africa, Syria, and the United States. Their projects have been performed by JACK Quartet at venues including 92NY, TIME:SPANS, MoMA PS1, Ojai Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Lucerne Festival, and Wigmore Hall, in addition to being recorded for professional releases. 

JACK Quartet has performed to critical acclaim at venues such as Carnegie Hall (USA), Lincoln Center (USA), UChicago Presents (USA), Library of Congress (USA), Berlin Philharmonie (Germany), BBC Proms (United Kingdom), Royal Library (Denmark), Philharmonie de Paris (France), Kölner Philharmonie (Germany), Sydney Opera House (Australia), Salzburg Festival (Switzerland), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Suntory Hall (Japan), Bali Arts Festival (Indonesia), Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), and Teatro Colón (Argentina). 

JACK Quartet makes their home in New York City, where they are the Quartet-in-Residence at the Mannes School of Music at The New School and provide mentorship to Mannes’ Cuker and Stern Graduate String Quartet. They teach at summer music festivals such as the Lucerne Festival Academy, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and New Music on the Point. JACK has a long-standing relationship with the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program, where they teach and collaborate with students each fall and spring. 

Learn more at www.jackquartet.com. 

 

*Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez

 

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