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Hancher Auditorium
Hancher Auditorium at University of Iowa
The JACK Quartet—with a long history of teaching, coaching, and performing at the University of Iowa—opens Fifty for the Future with a wide-ranging set of selections from the project.
inti figgis-vizueta offers fleeting moments of order arising from ambient noise. Mark Applebaum channels Dadaist wit, while Onutė Narbutaitė invites patient contemplation. Barry Guy draws on Samuel Beckett's final poem, Missy Mazzoli builds from harmonics to an ecstatic chorale, and Stephan Thelen creates a musical world of layered meters.
Program:
inti figgis-vizueta: branching patterns
Mark Applebaum: Flashlight
Onutė Narbutaitė: just strings and a light wind above them
Barry Guy: what is the word
Missy Mazzoli: Enthusiasm Strategies
Stephan Thelen: Circular Lines
Tickets go on sale to the general public on July 20, 2026 at 10:00am CT.
Hancher Auditorium
Hancher Auditorium at University of Iowa
JACK Quartet returns Friday evening for a second Fifty for the Future program—pulling the catalog's wider range into focus.
Nicole Lizée conjures film noir, while Yotam Haber builds on a Jewish melody from Italy's Piedmont. Aleksander Kościów meditates on the ancient Greek cry for mercy. Sky Macklay imagines notes as prehistoric bones. Tanya Tagaq brings Arctic sounds into the string quartet, and Rafiq Bhatia reimagines the quartet through his own guitar technique. A skittish, incantatory work by Laurie Anderson closes the evening.
Program:
Nicole Lizée: Darkness Is Not Well Lit
Yotam Haber: From the Book
Aleksander Kościów: Hílathi
Sky Macklay: Vertebrae
Tanya Tagaq: Sivunittinni
Rafiq Bhatia: Glimmers; 3 movements
Laurie Anderson: Shutter Island
Tickets go on sale to the general public on July 20, 2026 at 10:00am CT.
University of Iowa: Guest Chamber Recital
University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program
JACK Quartet continues their long-standing relationship with the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program. In their two-part 2025-26 residency, JACK Quartet will workshop drafts by student composers, and teach chamber music. In this recital, JACK will perform a recital of works written expressly for them by UI student composers.
This concert is free and open to the public.
University of Iowa: Hancher Auditorium
Hancher’s 52nd Season
JACK Quartet returns to the University of Iowa for a recital at Hancher Auditorium featuring the music of John Luther Adams and Elliott Carter, presented in collaboration with the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program and Center for New Music. The audience will be seated in chairs on the Hadley stage looking out at the auditorium. The performers will be close-up, making their performance from the lip of the stage. Seating is accessible via ramps on either side of the stage.
Program:
John Luther Adams, Lines Made by Walking
Elliott Carter, String Quartet No. 5 (1995)
University of Iowa: School of Music
Guest Chamber Recital: JACK Quartet
The JACK Quartet will be giving a recital as a part of their Spring residency with the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program in collaboration with the Center for New Music.
Featuring new music by graduate student composers:
Sean Harken
Gregory Evans
Kevin Swenson
Alex Lenaers
Qing Xu
Lucy Shirley
Jeff Martin
This concert is free and open to the public.
Hancher Auditorium
JACK Quartet plays John Zorn
Cat o' Nine Tails
The Alchemist
The Remedy of Fortune
Necronomicon
Presented in collaboration with the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program, Feed Me Weird Things, University of Iowa Center for New Music, and the University of Iowa Old Capital Museum.
Part of Hancher's 51st season