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JACK Quartet To Perform the Complete Elliott Carter String Quartets At London’s Wigmore Hall On April 6 and The Morgan Library in NYC On April 14

February 20, 2019 | By Andrew Ousley

Unison Media

The New York City concert will present the cycle in a single three-hour performance with two intermissions

For immediate release – The JACK Quartet will perform the complete quartets of Elliott Carter in a pair of special performances at London’s Wigmore Hall on April 6, and New York City’s Morgan Library & Museum on April 14. Composed between 1950 and 1995, two of Carter’s five string quartets were awarded Pulitzer Prizes, and the entire cycle remains both a testament to Carter’s unique compositional vision, as well as a formidable technical challenge to the quartets who seek to perform them.

JACK violinist Austin Wulliman said: "The quartets of Elliott Carter were my inspiration for pursuing a life performing string quartets. They possess a deeply felt personal vision of a democratic ethos full of subtly drawn emotion held aloft by a rigorous methodology. These quartets connect to the tradition of string playing I cherish while challenging it to grow."

At the Morgan, The JACK Quartet will present all five quartets back-to-back in a marathon three-hour performance with two intermissions, while Wigmore Hall will present the program split out over two separate recitals on the same day.

Listing Info

Wigmore Hall
London, United Kingdom
April 6, 2019

1:00pm
Carter: String Quartet No. 5
Carter: String Quartet No. 1

7:30pm
Carter: String Quartet No. 4
Carter: String Quartet No. 2
INTERMISSION
Carter: String Quartet No. 3

The Morgan Library & Museum
New York, NY
April 14, 2019

3pm
Carter: String Quartet No. 2 & No. 5
INTERMISSION
Carter: ?String Quartet No. 1?
INTERMISSION
Carter: String Quartet No. 4 & No. 3

About the JACK Quartet

Hailed by The New York Times as the “nation’s most important quartet”, 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” and named to WQXR’s “19 for 19 Artists to Watch.”

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 Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Julia Wolfe, George Lewis, Chaya Czernowin, Simon Steen-Andersen, and many more.

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

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