April 18 FACE OFF: JACK QUARTET + QUARTET NEW GENERATION

The first night of the festival pits two extraordinary quartets: the JACK string quartet, (David Patrick Stearns (Philadelphia Inquirer) proclaimed their performance as being "among the most stimulating new-music concerts of my experience," and NPR listed their performance as one of "The Best New York Alt-Classical Concerts Of 2010"; and Quartet New Generation, a recorder – yes, recorder! – collective, the likes of which youhave not heard, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “mind-blowing” and First Prize Winners of the 2004 Concert Artist Guild International Competition. MATA commissions two talented young composers: Huck Hodge, the 2011 Rome Prize winner, to write a new work from the JACK Quartet, and the Shanghai-based Yi Qin to write for QNG. We begin each night of the festival with one part of  Jacob Cooper's newly-created hypnotic video series, Triptych.

Program

Jacob Cooper, Triptych, I: Commencer Une Autre Mort (video)
Qin Yi , Sound Shadow, (MATA Commission), QNG
Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Atemlos, QNG with with motor driven devices designed and built in collaboration with Swiss artist Pe Lang
Huck Hodge, re[(f)use] (MATA Commission), JACK
Hugi Gudmunsson, Matins, JACK
Oscar Bianchi, Crepuscolo, QNG
Gordon Beeferman, Passages, QNG
Yotam  Haber, Estro poetico-armonico for JACK and QNG