Between their solo performance yesterday at the Winnipeg New Music Festival and their performing with the WSO tonight, JACK joined Simeon Rusnak at 5pm in the Diamond Lane! 

 Deemed "superheroes of the new music world" (Boston Globe), the JACK Quartet is "the go-to quartet for contemporary music, tying impeccable musicianship to intellectual ferocity and a take-no-prisoners sense of commitment." (Washington Post) "They are a musical vehicle of choice to the next great composers who walk among us." (Toronto Star)

Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, JACK is focused on new work, leading them to collaborate with composers John Luther Adams, Chaya Czernowin, Simon Steen-Andersen, Caroline Shaw, Helmut Lachenmann, Steve Reich, Matthias Pintscher, and John Zorn. 

In their Winnipeg premiere, JACK offered a cross-section of contemporary musical styles, including the premiere performance of Philip Glass' String Quartet no 8, co-commissioned by the WSO and Carnegie Hall. Also on the program were works of Sabrina Schroeder, Brian Ferneyhough and Georg Friedrich Haas. 

Tonight, they are back on the Centennial Concert Hall stage this time joined by the WSO in the Canadian premiere of Pascal Dusapin's Hinterland. You can read more about the program here: https://wnmf.ca/the-next-world/