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)

El vago temor de lo entrevisto [string quartet n.2]

2009, unfinished.
Workshop with the Danel Quatour in March 2010.
6 min

Cuarteto Alberto [string quartet n.1]

Composed in 2001 this piece was awarded first prize at the Pablo Sorozabal Composition Competition 2005 and premiered by the Iturriaga Quartet in at the Quincena Musical 2006 in San Sebastián, Spain.