Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, JACK celebrates their landmark 20th anniversary season in 2024-2025. Through intimate, long-standing relationships with many of today’s most creative voices, JACK Quartet has a prolific commissioning and recording catalog, has been nominated for three GRAMMY® Awards, and is the 2024 recipient of Chamber Music America’s Michael Jaffee Visionary Award.
Among the highlights of the 2024-2025 season, JACK premieres new commissions by Anthony Cheung, Juri Seo, and Ellen Fullman, releases Zorn’s complete string quartets on Tzadik Records, and performs internationally at Wigmore Hall, Pierre Boulez Saal, Konzerthaus Berlin, as well as appearances in Toronto, Barcelona, and Lugano and Winterthur, Switzerland. The Quartet has performed to critical acclaim at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Berlin Philharmonie, Muziekgebouw, The Louvre, Kölner Philharmonie, the Lucerne Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Suntory Hall, Sydney Opera House, Bali Arts Festival, Festival Internacional Cervantino, and Teatro Colón, among many others. Included in their honors are an Avery Fisher Career Grant, Fromm Music Foundation Prize, and Musical America’s 2018 “Ensemble of the Year”.
JACK Quartet created JACK Studio in 2019 to support commissions, recordings, and workshops with emerging music artists who are interested in exploring and expanding the repertory for string quartet. As JACK marks its 20th Anniversary Season, JACK Studio will grow to include a full range of commissions including prominent composers who will also serve as mentors to JACK Studio’s earlier-career collaborators.
JACK Quartet makes their home in NYC, where they are the Quartet in Residence at the Mannes School of Music at The New School. They teach at summer music festivals such as the Lucerne Festival Academy, Banff Centre for the Arts, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and New Music on the Point.
