JACK Quartet 2019-20 Season Announcement

New York-area highlights include Miller Theatre on October 17-18, National Sawdust on March 13-14, The Crypt Sessions on October 21, JACK Frontiers at The New School on December 17-18, 92nd Street Y on November 16, and Met Museum on March 27

The ensemble performs in major concert halls across the world in 2019-20, including at the Pierre Boulez Haal in Berlin, Vienna Concerthouse, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, Concertgebouw, and National Gallery of Art

The inaugural JACK Studio performance takes place at Merkin Concert Hall on May 2 as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival, and features a program of all-new works by six artists selected from around the globe

For immediate release - New York, NY -  The 2019-2020 season sees the innovative JACK Quartet continuing to push the boundaries of contemporary music, with a series of performances in the ensemble’s hometown of New York City, tours to Europe in both the Fall and Spring, numerous premieres of new works, performances of the complete quartets of John Zorn and Clara Iannotta, the inaugural JACK Frontiers festival, and the inaugural season of the ensemble’s new JACK Studio program.

The ensemble will give a broad variety of world premieres throughout the 2019-20 season, including Hannah Lash’s new chamber opera Desire at Miller Theater (October 16-17), as well as world premieres by John Luther Adams (May 14) and Andy Akiho (November 15 at Philadelphia Chamber Music Society). The quartet will also premiere new works by Lester St. Louis and Catherine Lamb as part of JACK Frontiers (December 17-18 at The New School), and in May it will give the inaugural JACK Studio concert at Merkin Concert Hall, featuring a program of all-new works by six artists selected from around the world.

In its hometown of New York,  JACK will perform an all-Zorn program with soprano Barbara Hannigan in October at the Park Avenue Armory, and also the Zorn’s complete quartets over two nights at National Sawdust (March 13-14). Further NYC performances include the Met Museum with the Silvana Quartet (March 27), New York University (April 8), and The Crypt Sessions (October 21), where it will give the New York premiere of John Luther Adams’ Lines Made By Walking. The ensemble heads to the Miller Theatre on September 25 with a program of works by Anthony Braxton. 

The ensemble will tour in Europe twice during the 2019-2020 season, kicking off with September performances at the Lucerne Festival and Muzeum Slaskie in Katowice, Poland, and a tour of Germany with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. Further European dates in the Fall include at the Strings of Autumn Festival in Prague, Philharmonie Essen, Milano Musica, and the Bernaola Festival in Spain. The quartet performs at the Ultraschall Berlin and Concertgebouw in January, before heading to London’s Southbank Centre (February 1) with percussionist Colin Currie. On April 24,  JACK gives the world premieres of new works by Patricia Allessandrini and Hèctor Parra in Witten, Germany, and returns to Europe in May for performances at Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Wiener Konzerthaus, and the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin.

Listing Info

Sep 12, 2019
Concertgebouw Brugge
Brugge, Belgium
Helmut Lachenmann, Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied
Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) Op. 40

Sep 13, 2019
Köln Philharmonie
Köln, Germany
Helmut Lachenmann, Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied
Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) Op. 40

Sep 15, 2019
Berlin Philharmonie
Berlin, Germany
Helmut Lachenmann, Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied
Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) Op. 40

Sep 16, 2019
Congress Union Celle
Celle, Germany
Helmut Lachenmann, Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied
Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) Op. 40

Sep 17, 2019
Frauenkirche Dresden
Dresden, Germany
Helmut Lachenmann, Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied
Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) Op. 40

Sep 25, 2019
Miller Theater
New York, NY
Anthony Braxton, Composition 17
Anthony Braxton, Composition 18

Sep 28, 2019
Muzeum Slaskie
Katowice, Poland
John Zorn, Rμν-½gμνR=8πΤμν
John Zorn, The Alchemist

Oct 15, 2019
Park Avenue Armory
New York, NY
John Zorn, Rμν-½gμνR=8πΤμν
John Zorn, Pandora’s Box

Oct 17, 2019 – Oct 18, 2019
Miller Theater
New York, NY
Hannah Lash, Desire

Oct 21, 2019
Church of the Intercession
New York, NY
John Luther Adams, Lines Made By Walking

Oct 25, 2019
La Fabrika
Prague, Czech Republic
Iannis Xenakis, Tetora
Iannis Xenakis, ST-4/1,080262
Iannis Xenakis, Ergma
Iannis Xenakis, Tetras

Oct 27, 2019
Alfried Krupp Saal
Essen, Germany
Iannis Xenakis, Tetora
Helmut Lachenmann,  String Quartet No. 3 “Grido”
Sky Macklay,  Many Many Cadences
LucaI Francesconi, I voli di Niccolò

Oct 28, 2019
Teatro Elfo Puccini
Milan, Italy
Luca Francesconi, I voli di Niccolò
Oscar Bianchi, Pathos of Distance
Sky Macklay, Many Many Cadences
Helmut Lachenmann, String Quartet No. 3 “Grido”

Oct 31, 2019
Bernaola Festival
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Iannis Xenakis, Tetras
Helmut Lachenmann, String Quartet No. 3 “Grido”
Sky Macklay, Many Many Cadences
Luca Francesconi, I voli di Niccolò

Nov 15, 2019
Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Suzanne Farrin, Hypersea
Andy Akiho, New work
Tyshawn Sorey, Everything Changes, Nothing Changes

Nov 16, 2019
Kaufman Concert Hall
New York, NY
Andy Akiho, New work
Suzanne Farrin, Hypersea
Iannis Xenakis, Tetras

Nov 22, 2019
Western Michigan University, Dalton Center Recital Hall
Kalamazoo, MI
Andy Akiho, New work
Suzanne Farrin, Hypersea
Iannis Xenakis, Tetras

Dec 6, 2019
University of Iowa, Voxman Music Building
Iowa City, Iowa
Rodericus, Angelorum Psalat (arr. Christopher Otto)
Solage, Fumeux fume par fumee (arr. Christopher Otto)
Luca Francesconi, I voli di Niccolò
Thomas Morley, Christes Crosse (arr. Christopher Otto)
Sky Macklay, Many Many Cadences
Helmut Lachenmann, String Quartet No. 3 “Grido”

Dec 8, 2019
National Gallery of Art, West Garden Court
Washington, DC
Rodericus, Angelorum Psalat (arr. Christopher Otto)
Solage, Fumeux fume par fumee (arr. Christopher Otto)
Luca Francesconi, I voli di Niccolò
Thomas Morley, Christes Crosse (arr. Christopher Otto)
Sky Macklay, Many Many Cadences
Helmut Lachenmann, String Quartet No. 3 “Grido”

Dec 17, 2019 – Dec 18, 2019
The New School, John L. Tishman Auditorium
New York, NY
Catherine Lamb, divisio spiralis
Clara Iannotta, Earthling — dead wasps (obituary)
Lester St. Louis, New work
Tyshawn Sorey, Everything Changes, Nothing Changes

Jan 12, 2020
Ultraschall Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Clara Iannotta, A Failed Entertainment
Clara Iannotta, dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii)
Clara Iannotta, Earthling — dead wasps (obituary)
Clara Iannotta, New work

Jan 29, 2020
The Concertgebouw
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Simon Holt, Quadringa
Steve Martland, Starry Night
Clara Iannotta, A Failed Entertainment
Andy Akiho, New work

Feb 1, 2020
Purcell Room
London, United Kingdom
Simon Holt, Quadringa
Steve Martland, Starry Night
Clara Iannotta, A Failed Entertainment
Andy Akiho, New work

Feb 7, 2020
University of Chicago, Logan Center Performance Hall
Chicago, IL
Georg Friedrich Haas, String Quartet No. 9

Mar 11, 2020
University of Iowa, Voxman Music Building
Iowa City, IA
University of Iowa students, New works

Mar 13, 2020
National Sawdust
New York, NY
John Zorn, Cat O' Nine Tails
John Zorn, The Dead Man
John Zorn, Memento Mori
John Zorn, Kol Nidre

Mar 14, 2020
National Sawdust
New York, NY
John Zorn, Necronomicon
John Zorn, The Unseen
John Zorn, The Alchemist
John Zorn, The Remedy of Fortune

Mar 27, 2020
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
Mary Kouyoumdjian, Bombs of Beirut
Mary Kouyoumdjian, New work

Apr 4, 2020
Mildred Sainer Pavilion
Sarasota, FL
Program TBA

Apr 8, 2020
New York University
New York, NY
NYU Students, New works

Apr 24, 2020
Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
Witten, Germany
Patricia Alessandrini, New work
Hèctor Parra, New work

May 2, 2020
Merkin Concert Hall
New York, NY
Eduardo Aguilar, New work
Khyam Allami, New work
inti figgis-vizueta, New work
Brittany J. Green, New work
Elliot Reed, New work
Olivia Shortt, New work

May 9, 2020
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Stanford students, New works

May 14, 2020
Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center
Asheville, NC
John Luther Adams, Particles and Waves

May 24, 2020
Wigmore Hall
London, United Kingdom
Program TBA

May 25, 2020
Kleiner Saal
Hamburg, Germany
EvaIn Reiter, In groben Zügen
Sabrina Schroeder, UNDERROOM
Jason Eckardt, Passage

May 26, 2020
Mozart-Saal
Wein, Austria
EvaIn Reiter, In groben Zügen
Sabrina Schroeder, UNDERROOM
Jason Eckardt, Passage

May 27, 2020
Pierre Boulez Saal
Berlin, Germany
Sky Macklay, Many Many Cadences
Helmut Lachenmann, String Quartet No. 3 “Grido”
Tyshawn Sorey, Everything Changes, Nothing Changes

May 28, 2020
Pierre Boulez Saal
Berlin, Germany
Catherine Lamb, divisio spiralis

May 29, 2020
Pierre Boulez Saal
Wein, Germany
EvaIn Reiter, In groben Zügen
Sabrina Schroeder, UNDERROOM
Jason Eckardt, Passage