JACK Quartet : áltaVoz Composers

Americas Society presents an entire program of exciting new music by the áltaVoz composers, performed by the JACK Quartet.

Praised for its “powerhouse playing” by The Chicago Sun-Times and “extraordinary precision” by The Boston Globe, the JACK Quartet has quickly established a reputation for giving high-energy performances of today’s most demanding works for string quartet.

áltaVoz, described as “a group to watch” by New Music Connoisseur, is a group of five Latin American, cutting-edge composers living in United States and Europe who work together to organize concerts, lectures and workshops around the world.

Programme
L’ardito e quasi stridente gesto — José Luis Hurtado
Cuarteto No. 3, Música fúnebre y nocturna — Jorge Villavicencio Grossman
Every new volition a mercurial swerve, Cuarteto No.3 — Mauricio Pauly
Corde Vocale — Felipe Lara

Every new volition a mercurial swerve [string quartet n.3]

Performed by the JACK Quartet at the Americas Society in New York.
February 11, 2010.
(current score 20100201)

Clinamen clinamen clinamen [mand, accord, vln, vla]

(current score 20090101)

Joseph Brent – mandolin, Lidia Kaminska – accordion, Jennifer Curtis – violin, Margaret Dyer – viola at the Galapagos Art Centre in DUMBO, NY, January 30, 2009
Closing concert of the Brooklyn Philharmonic‘s Nuevo Latino Festival

Clinamen clinamen clinamen [cl + sq]

Written for and premiered by the Ikarus Chamber Players at the WMP Concert Hall in New York. October 30th, 2008.
Sarah Beaty – cl
Julia MacLaine – vc
Margaret Dyer – vla
Owen Dalby, Jonathan Chu – vlns