​​Claire Chase is a gifted flutist, interdisciplinary artist, and educator passionate about elevating the creations of composers of this generation. Chase has given the world premieres of hundreds of new works with her trademark grace and thoughtful execution. Accompanied by JACK Quartet, she will premiere a new, Stanford Live commissioned piece by the brilliant minimalist composer Terry Riley. 

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Claire Chase and JACK Quartet

Stanford University

Art of Elan and ArtPower’s first-ever collaboration brings the renowned JACK Quartet to San Diego for an evening of music titled “Modern Medieval,” where connections of musicality and thought between European composers of the past and the voices of American music today are explored. This one-hour program includes music by Caroline Shaw as well

JACK Quartet + Art of Elan

Price Center

Hailed by The New York Times as “our leading new-music foursome,” and described as “expert in the most ferociously difficult modern scores'' by The New Yorker, the GRAMMY-nominated JACK Quartet is one of the most respected experimental string quartets performing today, synchronized in its mission to create international community through transformative, mind-broadening experiences and close listening. Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, JACK was founded in 2005 and operates as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the performance, commissioning, and appreciation of 20th and 21st century string quartet music. Through intimate, longstanding relationships with many of today’s most creative voices, the quartet has a prolific commissioning and recording catalog and has been nominated for three GRAMMY Awards. Read more...

Clark Residency: JACK Quartet

Eastman School of Music

Levi Family Distinguished Visiting Artist

JACK Quartet

Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

String quartet JACK perform two concerts—each with a different program—over two consecutive nights, featuring new works by Princeton University faculty and graduate student composers.

JACK Quartet (1/2)

Princeton University

“Our leading new-music foursome,” is simply and clearly how The New York Times describes the JACK Quartet. Through close collaboration with today’s most exciting and sought-after composers, JACK inspires and infuses new works with tremendous energy and riveting attention.

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Possessing a “tone that draws in one’s ear with sounds and ideas that simply cannot be resisted” (Philadelphia Inquirer), flutist Julietta Curenton joins “leading new-music foursome” (New York Times) the JACK Quartet in a concert that includes the Philadelphia premiere of Iranian composer Aida Shirazi’s Vestiges. The program concludes with John Zorn’s Nachträglichkeit, a work for string quartet and flute that is full of surprises, from extremely quiet moments to unexpected, fast blows.

JACK Quartet

May 8, 2024

Claire Chase and JACK Quartet

May 6, 2024

JACK Quartet + Art of Elan

JACK Quartet