Marc Sabat’s music offers a unique combination: a rigour coming from his systematic engagement with the principles of just intonation, and an underlying lyricism which allows the music to appeal far more widely than it would if it were an academic exercise. Nick Storing says of Sabat that “the seemingly unsoluble tension between his music’s stark underlying logic and its aspirations towards the ineffable is what makes it so wondrously beguiling.” The Jack Quartet recently recorded a CD of his music for Another Timbre’s Canadian Composers Series, and two of those pieces can be heard this evening, along with ‘Gioseffo Zarlino’, a duo for violin and viola. Now living in Berlin, Sabat is flying over for to be present at the concert.