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The JACK Quartet’s thing with strings could launch a revolution

The JACK Quartet
© Wigmore Hall Trust, 2024
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“a highly distinctive creative aesthetic that engages the heart, the head, and the soul”
Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 11 May 2024
Wulliman, Hoquetus David on Guillaume de Machaut
Smith, Carrot Revolution
Crawford Seeger, String Quartet
Feldman, Structures for String Quartet
Ergün, Sonare
Lim, String Creatures (UK premiere)
JACK Quartet
Christopher Otto, Violin
Austin Wulliman, Violin
John Pickford Richards, Viola
Jay Campbell, Cello
Guitars, electronics and ancient treatises: the JACK Quartet at 92NY
****1
JACK Quartet puts Boulez in broader context
*****
Too-similar programming drags down JACK Quartet at 92nd Street Y
*1111
A Feldmanesque meditation by Tyshawn Sorey
*****
Spirit of Delight: Iannis Xenakis celebrated at the Southbank Centre
*****
JACK slows time at Time:Spans
*****
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