The JACK Quartet�s concerts prove time and again that we belong to a golden age of chamber music composition, one in which creative diversity and difference are encouraged and celebrated.
This programme, devised by Wigmore Hall�s Composer in Residence Julian Anderson, opens with a seminal work composed in 1931 by Ohio-born Ruth Crawford Seeger, the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and closes with Horaţiu Rădulescu�s evocatively titled Fifth String Quartet of 1995.
Brian Ferneyhough�s wild Exordium, written in honour of Elliott Carter�s 100th birthday in 2008, stands in bold contrast to Julian Anderson�s �Light Music� and the world premi�re of a new score by Christopher Trapani, winner of the 2007 Gaudeamus Prize.
