The Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music world, combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today's world. Now in its third decade, the Quartet has established itself as an ensemble of the highest musical qualifications.

 

 

Phillip Ying, as violist of the Ying Quartet, has performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is a recipient of the Naumburg Award for Chamber Music, has won a Grammy for a collaborative recording with the Turtle Island String Quartet, and has been nominated three additional times, most recently for a collaborative album with pianist, Billy Childs.

 

 

Cellist David Ying is well known to concert audiences as the cellist of the Grammy Award winning Ying Quartet. With the Quartet he has performed worldwide in celebrated music venues from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. The quartet is also known for its enterprising view of concert performance, which has led to visits to the White House as well as correctional facilities, and to business schools as well as hospitals.

 

 

Janet Ying is a founding member of the Ying Quartet, whose fascinating career path began in 1992 in Jesup, a small town in northeast Iowa. Among the first groups to be awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant to live and perform in a rural area, Ms. Ying explored connections between concert music and everyday life, performing throughout the community in places like schools, workplaces, social clubs, churches and banks.

 

 

Taiwanese pianist Chiao-Wen Cheng has performed as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Asia and is currently a performing artist/staff pianist and the Eastman School of Music.

 

1. Mozart: Piano Quartet in G Minor, K 478

2. Rachmaninoff: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 19

 

- Intermission -

 

1. Faure: Piano Quartet in C minor