The Princeton Sound Kitchen, directed by Dan Trueman, is set to present the JACK Quartet on April 15 at 8 p.m. at Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall on the campus of Princeton University.
The program features Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade’s Ich ewiges Kind, Troy Herion’s Quartet, Dave Molk’s Ether, Jonathan Russell’Déja vu and Caroline Shaw’s Ritornello 2.sq.2.j.
The JACK Quartet was the recipient of New Music USA’s 2013 Trailblazer Award and has performed to critical acclaim in many venues including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.
The quartet is comprised of violinists Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violist John Pickford Richards and Cellist Kevin McFarland.
JACK focuses on commissioning and performing new works, which has led them to work closely with several composers.
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade is a first-year composition graduate student at Princeton University. She studied at Magdalen College in Oxford, where she produced music for theater and received postgraduate tuition in cello performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Troy Herion is a composer and filmmaker whose works unite contemporary music with visual arts through chamber and orchestral music, opera, theater, dance and film.
Dave Molk is in his third year at Princeton. He writes mainly for pitched and non-pitched percussion. He previously studied composition at Berklee College of Music and at Tufts University.
Jonathan Russell is a composer, bass clarinetist, conductor and educator. He holds degrees from Harvard University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and is currently a PhD candidate in the composition program at Princeton University.
Caroline Shaw is a Pulitzer Prize-winning musician. She performs primarily as violinist with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble and as vocalist with Roomful of Teeth. She is currently a doctoral fellow at Princeton.
This concert is free and open to the public.
More information is online at princetonsoundkitchen.org.
