Event

TownMusic: JACK Quartet

If you don't know JACK, it might be time for an introduction. Critics are gushing ("viscerally exciting," "explosive virtuosity," "mind-blowingly good"), the group's recording of Xenakis' complete string quartets appeared on at least a dozen major-media "Best Of 2009â lists, and "they'll follow up their Town Hall appearance with a date at Londonâs famed Wigmore Hall. Violinists Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Kevin McFarland, are dedicated to the commissioning and performance of new works, and their TownMusic concert will include a new arrangement of 5-voice Madrigals for Cello Quintet by Carlo Gesualdo; String Quartet no. 2 by Gyorgy Ligeti; Algol by Christopher Otto; Kevin McFarland's Eternal Golden Braid; and Tetras by Iannis Xenakis, JACK will be joined by Joshua Roman, TownMusic Artistic Director and former principal cellist with the Seattle Symphony.