Austin Wulliman: music for violin and electronics

About this event

Violinist Austin Wulliman of JACK Quartet celebrates the release of his new album of multi-tracked and electronically processed violins \"un árbol es una canoa pero también es este violín,\" including work by composition faculty member Vicente Atria. Wulliman will perform a wide range of works for violin and electronics, ranging from the soaring virtuosity of Tania Leon's \"abanico\" to the immersive landscape of Yaz Lancaster's \"ISOLATION\" and the playful rhythmic canons of Atria's \"faz\". Also on the program are works written for Wulliman by Daniel Bruno, Pablo Chin, Connor Elias Way, and original music by Wulliman.

> “…hardcore chops and ceaseless curiosity—the kind of musician > that devours new ideas, masters new techniques, and pours himself > into every endeavor with unabashed devotion.” > -Peter Margasak: Best of Bandcamp

PROGRAM

_ISOLATION_ by Yaz Lancaster _abanico_ by Tania Leon _faz_ by Vicente Atria _un árbol es una canoa pero también es este violín_ by Daniel Bruno new work tba by Austin Wulliman _Retrato del Gran Pájaro Feo_ by Pablo Chin _the sun must bear no name_ by Connor Elias Way

BIOGRAPHY

Violinist, composer and educator Austin Wulliman embodies the imagined and empathizes with the absurd through sounds both familiar and radical, telling stories with a limitless passion for tuning cries from every corner of the human capacity to hear. He is a member of JACK Quartet, called “the nation’s most important quartet” by the New York Times and has been praised as a “gifted, adventuresome violinist” by the Chicago Tribune. Through in-depth collaboration with performers and composers working in a panoply of aesthetic realms, Austin searches daily for the violin’s voice in today’s musical world. He has two albums of original music, The News From Utopia (2023) and Escape Rites (2025, with JACK Quartet).

Austin has played in such renowned venues as Wigmore Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie, Carnegie Hall, and the Wiener Konzerthaus, and featured on such festivals as Tanglewood, Ojai, Spoleto, and Lucerne. Work with JACK has included premieres by John Luther Adams, Chaya Czernowin, Philip Glass, Georg Friedrich Haas, Clara Iannotta, George Lewis, Tyshawn Sorey and John Zorn, as well as collaborating with the likes of Barbara Hannigan, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Helmut Lachenmann, Igor Levit, Julia Wolfe, and leading a chamber orchestra of members of the Berlin Philharmonic. He has received awards from Musical America (“2019 Ensemble of the Year” JACK Quartet), Chamber Music America’s Michael Jaffee Visionary Award in 2024, and was presented with Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2018.

Equally in demand as an educator, Austin serves on faculty at the Mannes School of Music, where JACK is Quartet in Residence. He has taught violin and musicianship on faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Lucerne Festival Academy, and the University of Chicago. Additionally, he has given guest instruction and presentations at such institutions as the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, New World Symphony, University of Michigan and Northwestern University.

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