Chatter North

Morton Feldman Vertical Thoughts 2
Morton Feldman Piece for Violin and Piano
Franz Schubert Impromptu No. 1 in C minor, D. 899
Morton Feldman Projections 4
Connor Elias Way the sun must bear no name

Austin Wulliman violin
Luke Gullickson piano

Wayne Lee spoken word

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.

Austin’s debut album as composer, The News From Utopia was released in 2023, which Austin wrote, recorded and mixed. His second record, Escape Rites, was released with JACK Quartet in 2025. His works have been performed in concert with pianist Conrad Tao at Miller Theater, by guitarist Alec Goldfarb at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse and Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium, and frequently by JACK Quartet. With JACK, his works have been performed at such venues as Cal Performances, Carnegie Hall Summer Stage, Lincoln Center, Melbourne Recital Centre, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Pierre Boulez Saal, and Wigmore Hall.

As an interpreter, Austin has played in such renowned venues as 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.