VC LIVE | Bowdoin International Music Festival Presents The JACK Quartet

Tune in here on Sunday, July 9th at 2:00PM (ET) for a unique concert presenting works by Feldman, Burhans, Glass, Shaw, & Zorn

We're coming at you live from the Bowdoin International Music Festival, one of the world’s premier music institutes. Founded in 1964, the Festival engages exceptional students and enthusiastic audiences through world-class education and performances. Each summer, 250 students from more than 20 countries and nearly every state attend the Festival to study with distinguished faculty and guest artists.

This concert features the JACK Quartet performing works by Morton Feldman, Caleb Burhans, Philip Glass, Caroline Shaw, and John Zorn.

JACK Quartet:
Christopher Otto, Austin Wulliman, violin • John Pickford Richards, viola • Jay Campbell, cello 

Program:

MORTON FELDMAN (1926–1987)
Structures

CALEB BURHANS (b. 1980)
Contritus

PHILIP GLASS (b. 1937)
String Quartet No. 5

CAROLINE SHAW (b. 1982)
Entr’acte

JOHN ZORN (b. 1953)
The Remedy of Fortune

About the JACK Quartet:

Hailed by The New York Times as “our leading new-music foursome”, the JACK Quartet is one of the most acclaimed, renowned, and respected experimental string quartets performing today. Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, JACK operates as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the performance, commissioning, and appreciation of new string quartet music. The quartet was selected as Musical America’s 2018 “Ensemble of the Year”, nominated for GRAMMY Awards for recordings in 2018 & 2022, named to WQXR’s “19 for 19 Artists to Watch”, and awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, as well as the Fromm Music Foundation Prize.

Through intimate relationships with today’s most creative voices, JACK embraces close collaboration with the composers they perform, leading to a radical embodiment of the technical, musical, and emotional aspects of their work. The quartet has worked with artists such as Julia Wolfe, George Lewis, Helmut Lachenmann, and Caroline Shaw, with upcoming and recent premieres including works by John Luther Adams, Catherine Lamb, Liza Lim, Tyshawn Sorey, Wadada Leo Smith, Amy Williams, and John Zorn. JACK’s all-access initiative, JACK Studio, funds collaborations with a selection of artists each year, who receive money, workshop time, mentorship, and resources to develop new works for string quartet.

Committed to education, JACK is the Quartet in Residence at the Mannes School of Music, where they provide mentorship to Mannes’s Cuker and Stern Graduate String Quartet.