April 21 · 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Mei-Hua Lee
Students of The Juilliard School: Nan-Cheng Chen, Allegra Chapman, Jing Yang, Said Pressley, Jennifer Chang
Amphion String Quartet:
Violin: Katie Hyun
Violin: David Southorn
Viola: Wei-Yang Andy Lin
Cellist: Mihai Marica
Hailed for their exciting, intense, and highly intelligent music, the Amphion String Quartet was awarded First Prize in the Piano and Strings category as well as the Audience Choice Award at the 2010 Plowman Chamber Music Competition held in Columbia, Missouri. That same year, they received the 1st Prize at the Hugo Kauder String Quartet Competition in New Haven, CT. Recently they have made appearances at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, the WMP Strad for Lunch Series in New York, as well as Yale University’s Sprague Hall.
They have performed at the Mostly Music Festival with such renowned artists as Ani Kavafian, Carter Brey, and Ettore Causa. In the summer of 2010 they were invited to the Beethoven Institute at Mannes College, and the Music@Menlo International Program in California. Highlights of their upcoming engagements include an April appearance as soloists with the New York Classical Players, performing Benjamin Britten’s Young Apollo with pianist Min Kwon. Soon thereafter they are scheduled to perform at the Stradivari Evenings Concert Series in NYC. In June of 2011, the Quartet will be performing at the O.K. Mozart Festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and have been invited to spend the month of July 2011 as the quartet-in-residence at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon. Additionally, the Amphion Quartet will be performing with renowned Clarinetist David Shifrin at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2011.
Violinists Katie Hyun and David Southorn, violist, Wei-Yang Andy Lin, and cellist, Mihai Marica, having played chamber music in many different configurations and venues, first joined together for a performance at Sprague Hall at the Yale School of Music in February, 2009. The overwhelmingly positive audience reception at this concert was the inspiration behind their mutual desire to pursue a career as the Amphion String Quartet.