The JACK Quartet visits London for a day of performances

The JACK Quartet, based in New York, champions string quartet music by 20th- and 21st-century composers. They visit London to perform at Wigmore Hall, London's iconic venue for chamber music, on Saturday 22nd March. Their three performances during the day are:

Morning (11.30am-12.30pm): Heinz Holliger found inspiration for his Second String Quartet while observing the passionate dialogue and occasional disputes generated during quartet rehearsals. The JACK Quartet prefaces the work’s dramatic ebb and flow with the five mesmerising movements of Philip Glass’s Fifth String Quartet.

Afternoon (3pm-4pm): Elliott Carter’s final string quartet, a complex tapestry woven from a dozen miniature movements, and Helmut Lachenmann’s passionate, often wild ‘Grido’ Quartet sit in company with Eduardo Aguilar’s HYPER, written for and first performed by the JACK Quartet in 2021.

Evening (7.30pm-9.30pm): Livre pour quatuor, conceived in 1948-9 and revised several times over the next four decades, contains a series of detachable pages that can be performed in random order. The JACK Quartet interleaves Boulez’s pointillist pieces with reflective minimalist scores and a spellbinding new work by Anthony Cheung.

£5 tickets are available for under 35s, and a limited number of free tickets are available to under 25s for the evening concert.