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February 10, 2025

For Immediate Release

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CUTTING EDGE CONCERTS New Music Festival

Victoria Bond, Artistic Director

Cutting Edge Concerts kicks off 2025 spring season with JACK Quartet on March 12 at Symphony Space

Program features music by Boulez, Cage, Glass, Hollinger and Webern

Season continues April 16 with Rudersdal Chamber Players and May 28 with pianist Min Kwon

"a gift to New Yorkers thirsty for new sounds"

– Time Out New York

Victoria Bond's Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival kicks off the 2025 season on March 12 presenting the GRAMMY-nominated JACK Quartet at 7:30 pm at Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th St, New York, NY).

Undeniably our generation’s “leading new-music foursome,” JACK Quartet, celebrating their 20th anniversary season, performs music by ground-breaking 20th century composers. The program features Heinz Holliger's String Quartet No. 2, Webern's Six Bagatelles, string quartets by John Cage and Philip Glass, and Pierre Boulez's Livres 1, 2, and 3c.

Inspired by Boulez's series, "Perspective Encounters", the composer and conductor Victoria Bond founded Cutting Edge Concerts in 1998. Over its 27 year history, Cutting Edge Concerts has presented over 300 new works. Each program highlights the music of living composers, most of whom attend the concert. Along with performances by world-class ensembles and soloists, each program features on-stage discussions between host Victoria Bond and the composers.

Tickets for JACK Quartet are $30 general admission, available at SymphonySpace.org. The season continues with the Danish piano quartet Rudersdal Chamber Players on April 16 (tickets here) and with pianist Min Kwon performing selections from her "America/Beautiful" project on May 28 (tickets on sale shortly). Full program details below.

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival 2025 Spring Season

All concerts held at Symphony Space at 7:30 pm

(2537 Broadway at 95th St., New York, NY)

March 12: JACK Quartet

Undeniably our generation’s “leading new-music foursome,” JACK Quartet, celebrating their 20th anniversary season, comes to Cutting Edge Concerts performing music by ground-breaking 20th century composers. Tickets

Program

Pierre Boulez: Livre 1, 2, 3c

Anton Webern: Six bagatelles, op. 9

Philip Glass: String quartet no. 5

John Cage: String quartet in four parts

Heinz Holliger: String quartet no. 2

April 16: Rudersdal Chamber Players

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival welcomes the Rudersdal Chamber Players from Denmark. Praised for their flawless, outstanding and convincing playing, the piano quartet has earned accolades for their performances throughout Europe and in the United States. Tickets

Program

Victoria Bond: Piano Trio "Other Selves"

Elena Firsova: Four Seasons

Andrew Waggoner: New Work (world premiere)

Poul Ruders: Piano Quartet

May 28: Pianist Min Kwon

Korean-born American pianist Min Kwon performs selections from her America/Beautiful project, in which she commissioned seventy composers to write variations on "America the Beautiful." Tickets will go on sale soon.

Program

Selected works from America/Beautiful project, including works by:

Jessica Meyer

Melinda Wagner

Justin Dello Joio

Paul Moravec

Charles Coleman

Qasim Naqvi

Trevor Weston

Scott Ordway

Victoria Bond

About Victoria Bond

A major force in 21st century music, composer Victoria Bond is known for her melodic gift and dramatic flair. Her works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and opera have been lauded by The New York Times as "powerful, stylistically varied and technically demanding." Her compositions have been performed by the New York City Opera, Shanghai, Dallas and Houston Symphonies, members of the Chicago Symphony and New York Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater and the Cassatt and Audubon Quartets. Ms. Bond is also an acclaimed conductor, and is the principal guest conductor of Chamber Opera Chicago, and has held conducting positions with Pittsburgh Symphony, New York City Opera, Roanoke Symphony, and Bel Canto and Harrisburg Operas.