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SUMMARY:Ying Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Ying Quartet \nProgramming to be announced. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring. \n  \nYing Quartet\nRobin Scott\, Janet Ying\, violin • Phillip Ying\, viola • David Ying\, cello \nThe Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music realm\, 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. The Quartet’s performances regularly take place in many of the world’s most important concert halls; at the same time\, the Ying’s belief that concert\nmusic can also be a meaningful part of everyday life has drawn the foursome to perform in settings as diverse as the workplace\, schools\, juvenile prisons\, and the White House. \nThe Ying Quartet first came to professional prominence in the early 1990s as the first recipient of an NEA Rural Residence Grant which led to it serving as the resident quartet of Jesup\, Iowa\, a farm town of 2\,000 people. Playing before audiences of six to six hundred in homes\, schools\, churches\, and banks\, the Quartet had its first opportunities to use music and creative endeavor to help build community and authentic human connection. The Quartet considers its time in Jesup the foundation of its present musical life and goals. \nThe Quartet’s upcoming 2025-26 season features appearances with Chamber Music Hamilton\, the Feldman Chamber Music Society\, Huntsville Chamber Music Guild\, Westchester Chamber Music Society\, Chamber Music Society Williamsburg\, Chamber Music Society of Utica\, Evergreen Woods\, and the Port Townsend Chamber Music Series. \nThe Ying’s ongoing LifeMusic commissioning project\, created in response to its commitment to expanding the rich string quartet repertoire\, has already achieved an impressive history. Supported by the Institute for American Music\, the Ying Quartet commissions both established and emerging composers to create music that reflects contemporary American life. \nRecent works include Billy Childs’ Awakening; Lera Auerbach’s Sylvia’s Diary; Lowell Liebermann’s String Quartet No. 3\, To the Victims of War; Sebastian Currier’s Next Atlantis; and John Novacek’s Three Rags for String Quartet. In August 2016\, the Ying Quartet released a new Schumann/Beethoven recording on Sono Luminus with renowned cellist Zuill Bailey\, and in that season the five toured with the Schumann Cello Concerto transcribed for cello and string quartet along with Beethoven’s “Kreutzer Sonata\,” also reimagined for cello quintet. \nThe Ying Quartet’s numerous other recordings reflect many of the group’s wide-ranging musical interests and have generated consistent\, enthusiastic acclaim. The group’s CD “American Anthem” (Sono Luminus)\, heralding the music of Randall Thompson\, Samuel Barber\, and Howard Hanson\, was released in 2013 to rave reviews; its 2007 Telarc release of the three Tchaikovsky Quartets and the Souvenir de Florence (with James Dunham and Paul Katz) was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Chamber Music Performance category. \nAs longtime quartet-in-residence at the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester\, NY\, the Ying Quartet teaches in the string department and leads a rigorous\, sequentially designed chamber music program. One cornerstone of chamber music activity at Eastman is the noted “Music for All” program\, in which all students curate opportunities to perform in community settings beyond the concert hall. The Quartet is also the ensemble-in-residence at the Bowdoin International Music Festival\, and from 2001-2008\, the members of the Ying Quartet were the Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University. \nThe Ying Quartet are Robin Scott and Janet Ying\, violins\, Phillip Ying\, viola and David Ying\, cello.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/ying-quartet-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Mondays,Livestream
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