Program
Mozart String Quartet in F Major K 590
Bartok String Quartet #3 in C Minor
Beethoven String Quartet #13 in B Flat Major Opus 130
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About the Formosa
Winners of the First Prize and the Amadeus
Prize at the Tenth London International String Quartet
Competition in 2006, the Formosa Quartet was formed in 2003 when
the four founding members came together for a concert tour of
Taiwan, the land of their shared heritage. Reviewing their
critically acclaimed debut CD released by EMI, the Strad states,
"their imaginative account of Mozart … is
spellbinding," while Gramophone describes their playing as "remarkably
fine both in meticulous response to the letter and in a desire
to look beyond the notes." With recent performances at the
Ravinia Festival, the Chicago Cultural Center, Wigmore Hall, and
the Royal Academy of Music, the Formosa Quartet's 2007-08 season
includes concerts at the New School in New York, the Caramoor
Festival, the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, the
Library of Congress in Washington D.C., Cornell University, San
Francisco State University, the Da Camera Society of Los
Angeles, as well as a winner's tour of the UK.
In addition to their performances of traditional
repertoire, the Formosa Quartet has also embraced the works of
contemporary composers, with world premieres of Shih-hui Chen's
Mei Hua for String Quartet and Thomas Oboe Lee's Piano Quintet
No. 1, as well as performances of pieces by Bright Sheng and
Richard Wilson.
The members of the Formosa Quartet - Jasmine Lin, Ayano
Ninomiya, Che-yen Chen, and Jacob Braun - have already
established themselves as leading solo, chamber, and orchestral
musicians. With degrees from Juilliard, the New England
Conservatory, the Cleveland Institute, Curtis, Harvard, and
Yale, they have performed in major venues around the United
States, Asia, Europe, and South America. They have been top
prize winners in the Primrose, Paganini, Naumburg competitions.
As chamber musicians, they have appeared regularly at the
Marlboro, Caramoor, and Ravinia festivals, and at the Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center. They have held title positions
in the San Diego and Cincinnati Symphonies and have been on the
chamber music faculty at Interlochen, University of California
San Diego, Taos School of Music, and Northwestern University |
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