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The JACK Quartet—hailed by The New York Times as “fearless” and “one of contemporary music’s indispensable ensembles”—returns (after making their Festival debut in 2025) to premiere commissioned works by the two participants in the Festival’s 13th annual Young Composers String Quartet Project and to play two exciting works they commissioned for their Modern Medieval program, which explores “the connections of musicality and thought between European composers of the past and the voices of American music today.”

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New Music With The Jack Quartet

New Mexico Museum of Art

Among the most nimble ensembles in contemporary music today, the adventurous JACK Quartet visits with a kaleidoscopic program of new and recent works by living composers. The group is known for the fierce commitment and virtuosity it brings to a range of innovative and idiosyncratic repertoire—in a landscape where each piece and each composer challenges the players with novel techniques, sounds, and approaches to their music making.

JACK Quartet

University of California, Berkeley

Trio Seoul was founded in 2022 by Bienen School associate professor of violin Jinjoo Cho, pianist Kyu Yeon Kim, and cellist and Bienen alumnus Brannon Cho. All three are top prize winners and laureates of prestigious international competitions including the Concours musical international de Montréal, the Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition, and the Queen Elisabeth Competition. The trio regularly collaborates with artists in multiple fields, including composers, choreographers, writers, and visual artists, and its members have appeared as soloists with celebrated orchestras throughout the world. The city of Seoul serves as a dynamic symbol of the ensemble’s cultural roots and artistic intensity.

Trio Seoul

Northwestern University

Renaissance Music with JACK Quartet

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Join the Terra String Quartet, Caramoor’s 2024-25 Ernst String Quartet-in-Residence, for an afternoon of chamber music that spans centuries and styles. As part of our mission to nurture and present the next generation of artists, this concert caps off the Terra String Quartet’s yearlong residency of community engagement and concerts.

Terra String Quartet

The Rosen House at Caramoor

Experience the innovative sounds of contemporary Korean composers at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with "New Voices from Korea." This captivating event, part of the Seoul Festival Green Umbrella New Music Series, is scheduled for Tuesday, June 3, 2025, at 8:00 PM. The evening promises an exploration of new musical landscapes through the works of Juri SEO, Sun-Young PAHG, Yie-Eun CHUN, Dongjin BAE, and Unsuk CHIN, showcasing compositions that range from the world premiere of a LA Phil commission to the West Coast premiere of "Gougalōn Scenes from a street theatre."

The program includes:
- Juri SEO's "Concertino for piano and chamber orchestra"
- Sun-Young PAHG's "L'autre moitié de Silence for Daegum and Ensemble"
- Yie-Eun CHUN's new work for solo violin and ensemble, marking its world premiere
- Dongjin BAE's "reflective - silky and rough"
- Unsuk CHIN's "Gougalōn Scenes from a street theatre," presented for the first time on the West Coast

The LA Phil New Music Group and Ensemble TIMF, under the baton of conductor Soo-Yeoul Choi and curated by Unsuk Chin, will bring these compositions to life, offering an evening of groundbreaking music. This event is a key highlight of the Green Umbrella GU1 Series and forms an integral part of the Seoul Festival, celebrating the rich tapestry of Korean music and culture.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to experience the latest in contemporary music and the vibrant new voices from Korea at one of the most prestigious venues in Los Angeles.

New Voices from Korea

Walt Disney Concert Hall

These six new works by Korean-American composers find common ground between performance and teaching communities, and between the new music and student communities. The commissions include pieces for solo violin, violin + electronics, violin duo, violin + piano, and 2 piano trios.

Dari:  Premieres that Bridge

Bargemusic

Following a highly successful performance at the Birch Aquarium in May 2024, co-presented by Art of Elan and ArtPower, the internationally renowned JACK Quartet returns to San Diego with an exciting program that features the world premiere of a new work by UC San Diego (UCSD) faculty member and composer, Rand Steiger, as well as “Three Imaginary Chansons” by Juri Seo. This one-night-only special event will take place in the acoustically superb Conrad Prebys Concert Hall on campus at UCSD and will offer a chance to meet the composer and musicians immediately following the performance.

JACK Quartet + Art of Elan

University of California San Diego

Experience the LGMF Fellows and Mentors performing classical masterworks along with guest composer Juri Seo.

Chamber Music

Fort William Henry Hotel & Conference Center

Join us for an evening of exceptional percussion performance by Stephen Symank, a talented Master of Music student under the guidance of She-e Wu. This captivating recital is scheduled for Wednesday, May 29, 2024, at 8:30pm CDT, taking place in the intimate setting of the Ryan Opera Theater at the Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University.

Stephen will showcase his mastery through a diverse program that includes pieces such as Tokuhide Niimi's "For Marimba I," Juri Seo's "V," Polo Vallejo's "Tactus," and Alejandro Viñao's "Khan Variations." This event promises to be a celebration of percussion music, offering a unique auditory experience to all attendees.

Admission to this event is free, making it an excellent opportunity for music lovers and enthusiasts to experience the vibrancy and depth of contemporary percussion works. The Ryan Opera Theater, located at 70 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, offers a cozy yet elegant venue with stunning views of Lake Michigan, providing the perfect backdrop for an evening of musical excellence.

Don't miss this opportunity to support emerging talent and enjoy an evening filled with innovative percussion music. No tickets are required for this event, so be sure to mark your calendar and join us for what promises to be a memorable performance.

Stephen Symank, percussion

South Korean violinist Jinjoo Cho – first prizewinner of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and Concours musical international de Montrál, Buenos Aires, and more – joins Emerald City Music for a first-ever full length concert for only the solo violin. Three vastly different works bring into vision a “circle of life” narrative, musically bringing together a beginning and an end in the present moment. Beginning with the wandering mysteriousness of Biber’s Passacaglia – one of the world’s oldest surviving solo violin works – the night gives way to Bach’s stately Chaconne; widely considered the greatest work of all time in the violin repertoire. Juri Seo’s Toy Store – a multimedia work dedicated to Jinjoo Cho – is not music for children, but rather a reflective journey through the various experiences of childhood that live on in our minds as adults. Drawing inspiration from punk jazz, John Adams, 19th-century presto movements, and video game music, the first movement, “Jack-in-the-Box,” is a dramatic portrayal of surprise, humor, and obsession as experienced in a child-like mind. The second movement, “Monster Truck”, combines heavy metal and 18th-century Chaconne to create a musical narrative that is at once violent and hilarious. “Mobile,” explores the feelings of comfort and fear associated with falling asleep, as one experiences a taste of death. In the fourth movement, “Roller Skates,” a resolution begins to take shape as the violin and prerecorded track participate in multi-part unison canons. Finally, in the final movement, “Bubbles,” the ethereal soundscape of pizzicati, harmonics, and tremolo evokes lightness and release.

Emerald City Music: An Evening with Jinjoo Cho

South Puget Sound Community College

We often hope that a single moment will last forever, yet a decade appears to go by ’too fast’ … TIME is a crucial decisive moment, a vast series of events, and everything between; it is the world’s most valuable non-renewable resource. Reflect on your personal experience with time, as the KAIROS PERCUSSION QUARTET explores numerous temporal concepts in the works of Weinfeld, Iyer, Seo and Reich.

What is TIME for…?

Edward Johnson Bldg

Part II of Oberlin's annual Danenberg Honors Recital featuring some of the Conservatory's most outstanding students.

The Danenberg Honors Recital is named in memory of Emil Charles Danenberg, who served Oberlin as a member of the Conservatory Piano Faculty for thirty years, Dean of the Conservatory of Music and 11th President of Oberlin College.

The Danenberg Honors Recital, Part II

Oberlin College

Boston Conservatory's fall Percussion Ensemble Concert features student groups performing music with groove as the central focus. Faculty members Kyle Brightwell and Matthew Smallcomb direct a program that includes works by Jlin, Robert Maggio, Juri Seo, and David Skidmore.

Percussion Ensemble Concert

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Alexa Clawson (B.M. '25) presents a percussion recital.

Student Recital: Alexa Clawson, Percussion

Every time you go to a percussion concert, the experience usually resonates beyond the normal concert hall boundaries and genres. Exploration of rhythm, sounds and color are limitless in this percussion world of music making. For this program we present works that have been written within the past ten years, three of them within the past five years. The first three pieces on the program all have a similar instrumentaion – all players playing the same setup of instruments, constantly developing and searching as one. The final piece on the program is believed to be Crumb’s final written work and we’re very excited to be able to present it here, as part of the California Festival. In comparison to the first half, it is a total explosion of instruments (almost 100) and color. Evoking an other-worldly experience, treading the line where nature meets sound in an endless exploration of time and color.

Hidden Time-Hidden Treasures

The USC Percussion Group, led by faculty member Joe Pereira, presents an evening of contemporary percussion works as part of the California Festival.

This event features Alyssa Weinberg's Ember II (2018), Juri Seo's Wah (2014), Joseph Pereira's Mallet Quartet (2013 rev 2023) and George Crumb's final work, Kronos-Kryptos (2020). Named "Hidden Time – Hidden Treasures," the program transitions from three pieces of similar instrumentation to Crumb's explosive percussion quintet which treads the boundaries between nature and sound.

California Festival: USC Percussion Group

University of Southern California

Sandbox Percussion opens the Classically Uncorked series with a dynamic program of new music and Bravo! Vail premieres, including works by Amy Beth Kirsten, David Crowell, Juri Seo, Viet Cuong, and Sandbox founder Victor Caccese.

Bravo! Vail’s Classically Uncorked returns with three bold chamber music programs cocurated and performed by Sandbox Percussion, a contemporary percussion quartet known for its visually and auditorily stunning presentations. Each Classically Uncorked program offers a unique chamber music experience with handcrafted wines and cabaret-style seating in the gorgeous Donovan Pavilion.

Classically Uncorked I: Sandbox Percussion

Donovan Pavilion

THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT is an ongoing series of 81 commissions for cello, celebrating a rich tapestry of distinct and diverse compositional palettes. Each composer has been asked to respond to two paintings, Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera (c.1480) and Charline von Heyl’s Primavera 2020. This three-day residency at the Barge offers a curated survey divided into three thematic programs, featuring 17 works heard for the first time in NYC and world premieres by Tyshawn Sorey, Texu Kim, Layale Chaker, Analia Llugdar, and Aaron Jay Kernis. Works by Josquin des Prez and J.S. Bach offer a musical grounding through the centuries.

Eclectic Series: The Primavera Project / RITES OF SPRING / Matt Haimovitz

Davis Nickles (M.M. '23) presents a recital.

Student Recital: Davis Nickles, Percussion

Close out the Lamar Family Chamber Series with an evening of assorted chamber ensembles from your BRSO. Featuring the new Turner/Fischer percussion instruments and selections from across Asia.

Chamber Series - Percussion Ensemble

LSU School of Music Recital Hall

Francis Poulenc combined oboe, bassoon, and piano in his 1926 Trio. The Poulenc Trio was formed in 2003 to further explore this instrumentation. Since then, they have commissioned 20 works. The last time they played at the Athenaeum was in 2010, and they’ll bring some newly commissioned works along with their signature piece.

Composer

Juri Seo

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Aug 7, 2026

New Music With The Jack Quartet · Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Mar 15, 2026

JACK Quartet · Cal Performances

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