JACK Quartet, pianist Conor Hanick, and Ekmeles

Name: JACK Quartet, pianist Conor Hanick, and Ekmeles
Start: 2025-02-22T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Bellefield Hall Auditorium

Schedule

Sat, 22 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Bellefield Hall Auditorium | Pittsburgh, PA

Works by Marcos Balter, Paul Gallagher, Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis and world premieres by Austin Wulliman and Mathew Rosenblum with video by Aaron Henderson and Scot Andrew.

About the Artists:
The JACK Quartet is a string quartet dedicated to championing music by 20th- and 21st-century composers.
They curate and perform programs that feature a variety of musical styles by both established and emerging artists, aspiring to create transformative experiences with every performance. Their music invites audiences to listen with their whole beings, fostering a deeper connection and broadening perspectives through close listening.
Since its founding in 2005, the quartet has introduced audiences worldwide to a wide range of experimental chamber music. Performing in venues that span classical music halls, art galleries, and bars, JACK Quartet commissions new music and collaborates closely with composers to bring their works to life. Through their JACK Studio program—which includes residencies, commissions, readings, and recordings—they are committed to dismantling outdated classical music pipelines for composers.
The JACK Quartet serves as the Quartet in Residence at The New School in New York City and frequently teaches at music festivals, conservatories, and universities.
https://www.jackquartet.com/

Ekmeles is a vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of new and rarely-heard works, and gems of the historical avant garde. They have a special focus on microtonal works, and have been praised for their “extraordinary sense of pitch” by the New York Times.
https://www.ekmeles.com/
A fierce advocate for the music of today, pianist Conor Hanick has premiered over 200 pieces and collaborated with composers ranging from Pierre Boulez, Kaija Saariaho, and Steve Reich, to the leading composers of his generation, including Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw, Tyshawn Sorey, Anthony Cheung, and Samuel Carl Adams.
https://conorhanick.com/
THIS EVENT IS THE FOURTH CONCERT OF BEYOND: MICROTONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2025.
The Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival 2025 is a follow-up to Music on the Edge's very successful Beyond Festivals in 2020, 2018 and 2015. Our last festival was in March of 2020, just days before the pandemic struck. We are very excited to present the Beyond festival again in 2025 together with our festival partners City of Asylum, and WQED.

Microtonal music is music that uses tuning systems other than, or in addition to, the standard twelve-note equal tempered system that is the norm in Western popular and classical music. This norm has been evolving with many composers in all idioms currently using a variety of tuning
approaches influenced by world music, early music, and physics and acoustics, to name a few.
Full festival passes can be found at
https://ci.ovationtix.com/36300/store/packages/143994