JACK Quartet, the Glossary
The JACK Quartet is an American string quartet dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music.[1]
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27 relations: Albany Records, Amy Williams, Arditti Quartet, Cello, Chaya Czernowin, Contemporary classical music, Donaueschingen Festival, Du Yun, Eastman School of Music, Georg Friedrich Haas, Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, Greyfade, Helmut Lachenmann, Iannis Xenakis, Kronos Quartet, Laura Schwendinger, Lucerne Festival, Modern Sky Festival, Reykjavík Arts Festival, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Steve Reich, String quartet, Tzadik Records, Venice Biennale, Viola, Violin, 64th Annual Grammy Awards.
Albany Records
Albany Records is a record label that concentrates on unconventional contemporary classical music by American composers and musicians.
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Amy Williams
Amy Joy Williams, (born 29 September 1982) is a British former skeleton racer and Olympic gold medallist.
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Arditti Quartet
The Arditti Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1974 and led by the British violinist Irvine Arditti. JACK Quartet and Arditti Quartet are contemporary classical music ensembles.
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Cello
The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.
Chaya Czernowin
Chaya Czernowin (Hebrew: חיה צ'רנובין,; born December 7, 1957) is an Israeli American composer, and Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University.
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Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music is Western art music composed close to the present day.
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Donaueschingen Festival
The Donaueschingen Festival, or more precisely Donaueschingen Music Days (Donaueschinger Musiktage), is a three-day October event presenting new music in the town of the same name, where the Danube River starts, at the edge of the Black Forest in southern Germany.
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Du Yun
Du Yun (traditional Chinese: 杜韻, simplified Chinese: 杜韵) is a Chinese-born American composer, performer, vocalist and performance artist.
Eastman School of Music
The Eastman School of Music is the music school of the University of Rochester, a private research university in Rochester, New York, United States.
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Georg Friedrich Haas
Georg Friedrich Haas (born 16 August 1953) is an Austrian composer.
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Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance (from 2013: Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance) has been awarded since 1997.
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Greyfade
greyfade is an experimental record label and publisher based in New York.
Helmut Lachenmann
Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music.
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Iannis Xenakis
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" ΚλέαρχουΞενάκης,; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.
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Kronos Quartet
The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. JACK Quartet and Kronos Quartet are American string quartets and contemporary classical music ensembles.
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Laura Schwendinger
Laura Elise Schwendinger (born January 26, 1962) was the first composer to win the American Academy in Berlin's Berlin Prize.
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Lucerne Festival
Lucerne Festival is one of the leading international festivals in the world of classical music and presents a series of classical music festivals based in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Modern Sky Festival
The Modern Sky Festival (Chinese: 摩登天空音乐节; pinyin: Módēng Tiānkōng Yīnyuè Jié) is an outdoor rock music festival in Beijing, China, organized by the Modern Sky record label.
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Reykjavík Arts Festival
The Reykjavík Arts Festival is an art festival that takes place in Reykjavík every other year.
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Ruth Crawford Seeger
Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford; July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953) was an American composer and folk music specialist.
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Steve Reich
Stephen Michael Reich (better-known as Steve Reich, born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who is known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
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String quartet
The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them.
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Tzadik Records
Tzadik is a record label in New York City that specializes in avant-garde and experimental music.
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Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation.
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Viola
The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed.
Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.
64th Annual Grammy Awards
The 64th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 3, 2022.
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