Modernism, post-modernism and the limitless scope of creative imagination are among the hallmarks of the JACK Quartet’s programme. It opens with Georg Friedrich Haas’s recently completed String Quartet No. 8, the latest in a remarkable series of works that examines the kaleidoscopic qualities of string sound. In addition to the polyrhythmic complexities and textural collisions of Elliott Carter’s String Quartet No. 3, a product of the early 1970s, the concert includes the world première of Simon Holt’s new work for string quartet – the latest addition to Wigmore Hall’s collection of ‘New British String Commissions’.