New Music New College-- The Jack Quartet

New College of Florida’s cutting-edge series of contemporary music presents its 12th season beginning in the fall of 2010. Once again, Director Stephen Miles has put together a varied and compelling program for New Music New College, featuring some of the most innovative musicians of our time, coupled with performances featuring New College students.

This year’s venues will include, for the first time, the College’s new Black Box Theater in the Hamilton Student Center, along with the Mildred Sainer Pavilion, College Hall and the PepsiCo Arcade in the Caples Fine Arts Complex, site of the third rendition of the wildly popular rock happening under the stars, Crossroads 3.

Subscriptions for the five-concert series are $55, with single tickets priced at $15. Events are free for New College students, faculty, and staff. Season brochures are currently available. You can view the brochure or request to receive one in the mail. Contact us by email at events@ncf.edu or call (941) 487-4888.

In addition to the series, three special New Music events are planned for 2010-2011. These include a November performance of Cage’s Song Books at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in the Searing Galleries, and a February concert of mostly contemporary music performed by the Sarasota Orchestra as part of the College’s Celebration on the Bay to commemorate its 50th anniversary. New Music graduates will also participate in the Ringling International Arts Festival’s “Family Festival” in October.

The JACK Quartet performs Georg Friedrich Haas’s In iij. Noct.

George Friedrick Haas’s In iij. Noct. offers the NMNC audience an experience of sensual immersion: sitting in the center of a completely dark space, the audience is surrounded by the intrepid musicians of the JACK Quartet. The music, derived in part from music by Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo, takes an unpredictable course, with the audience following entirely through the sense of hearing. The Los Angeles Times called the JACK Quartet’s performance of this work “a revelatory romp in the dark.” JACK’s performances at New College will help inaugurate the school’s new black box theater, located in Hamilton Center. While at New College, the JACK Quartet will work with students and NMNC Director Stephen Miles on a new experimental composition.

Due to limited seating, the performance will be presented three times.