JACK Quartet
Tuesday, November 17, 2009, at 7:30pm |
Foellinger Great Hall
Praised for its “powerhouse playing” by the Chicago Sun-Times and its "extraordinary precision" by the Boston Globe, the JACK Quartet has quickly established a reputation for giving high-energy performances of today’s most demanding works for string quartet. The New York Times called the quartet’s performance of Iannis Xenakis’ complete string quartets one of the “most memorable classical music presentations of 2008,” and in 2009, the quartet received an ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music. The members of the quartet are Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld on violin, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Kevin McFarland. The performance will feature the premiere of a new work by UI faculty composer Zack Browning plus pieces by Xenakis and Sharp and an arrangement of music by Guillaume de Machaut.
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