NOW! Festival 2025 - Essen

JACK Quartet performs the complete string quartets of Clara Iannotta at the Philharmonie Essen for the NOW! Festival. The four string quartets by the Italian composer Clara Iannotta combine brilliantly captivating soundscapes with mysterious, grounded stories, fitting this year's NOW! theme, "elements." JACK will also perform Lachenmann’s String Quartet No. 2 Round Dance of Blessed Spirits.

Program:
Helmut Lachenmann: String Quartet No. 2 Round Dance of Blessed Spirits
Clara Iannotta: dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii) for prepared string quartet and sine waves
Clara Iannotta: You crawl over seas of granite for amplified string quartet in altered mood
Clara Iannotta: A Failed Entertainment for string quartet
Clara Iannotta: Earthing - dead wasps (Obituary) for prepared string quartet, transducer and electronics