Pierre Boulez Saal

JACK Quartet returns to Pierre Boulez Saal for an intensely intimate look at the world of extended string sounds with a World Premiere by Danish composer Mads Emil Dreyer, two string quartets by close collaborator Helmut Lachenmann, and Clara Iannotta’s dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii) for prepared string quartet and sine waves.

Program:
Mads Emil Dreyer: Doldrums, inertia (World Premiere)
Helmut Lachenmann: String Quartet No. 3 "Grido"
Clara Iannotta: dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii)
Helmut Lachenmann: String Quartet No. 1 "Gran Torso"

This concert is part of Berlin's Month of Contemporary Music.

NOW! Festival 2025 - Essen

JACK Quartet performs the complete string quartets of Clara Iannotta at the Essen Philharmonic Hall 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 Reigen seliger Geister
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