休斯敦音乐之友07-08季： 格莱美大奖优胜者英四重奏和海龟岛弦乐四重奏2008年1月22日在莱斯大学演出

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英弦乐四重奏Ying Quartet
Janet Ying, Timothy Ying, 小提琴
Phillip Ying, 中提琴
David Ying, 大提琴
网址：www.ying4.com

海龟岛弦乐四重奏Turtle Island Quartet
David Balakrishnan, 小提琴和低音小提琴(Violin, Baritone)
Mads Tolling, 小提琴
Jeremy Kittel, 中提琴
Mark Summer, 大提琴
网址：www.tisq.com

英四重奏和海龟岛弦乐四重奏
演出时间：2008年1月22日晚8时整 Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:00 p.m.

两支室内乐已经双双被提名为2007 格莱美奖 (Grammy Awards):
all-sibling Ying Quartet (Souvenir de Florence-category: Best Chamber Music Performance)和
Turtle Island String Quartet (A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane-category: Best Classical Crossover Album).

2008年1月22日，英四重奏和海龟岛弦乐四重奏将一起在休斯敦音乐之友07-08音乐季系列演出中演出他们2006年格莱美奖大牒四加4(Four + 4)选曲。英四重奏演奏Ravel Quartet， 海龟岛弦乐四重奏在舞台上宣布所选曲目。

大提琴家Paul Katz, 中提琴家James Dunham,已经在英的 Souvenir de Florence大牒中出演。双双在休斯敦音乐之友系列中担任客座艺术家，同时双双作为克里夫兰弦乐四重奏的前成员。James Dunham还是牧羊人音乐学院的中提琴教授。

亚洲协会，作为一个全球化的推动亚美人群间相互理解的组织，继续作为一个休斯敦音乐之友的合作方来支持本次演出。

票价: $19-$61 (折扣票: 65+以上老人; 全日制学生凭有效学生证)

Visa and Mastercard accepted.
预定票请联系: 713.348.5400 fax: 713.348.5405
www.houstonfriendsofmusic.org

票房在演出当晚7时开始开放。

音乐会地址: Rice University • Alice Pratt Brown Hall • Entrance #8 off University Blvd.

英弦乐四重奏大师班免费，地址 HSPVA 时间：2008年1月22日中午 11:00 a.m.至 1:00 p.m. 周二
Tuesday, January 22, 2008.
Master Classes are an avenue for students to interact with internationally renowned chamber groups. Observers of master classes are often pleased with the high caliber of student performances and enjoy the comments rendered by the artist group.

Turtle Island Quartets photos from Jay Blakesberg

英弦乐四重奏英文小资料 Ying Quartet

The Ying Quartet's reputation for "instinctive unanimity" (Philadelphia Inquirer) and "astonishing, refreshing exaltation and exhilaration" (Los Angeles Times) is matched by its unparalleled success in making creative connections between chamber music and other art forms in ways that have great public appeal. Its long list of imaginative projects includes ¡°No Boundaries,¡± an innovative visiting residency at Symphony Space in New York City; an exploration with the Turtle Island Quartet of jazz, improvisation, and the classical string tradition; a program with folk musician Mike Seeger showing the influence of traditional folk music on contemporary American classical composition; and Hyperscore, a revolutionary online graphic compositional application that allows amateurs as well as musicians to compose using a personal computer.

The Ying siblings began their career as an ensemble in 1992 in the farm town of Jesup, Iowa, (population 2000) as one of the first ensembles involved in the Chamber Music America (then NEA) Rural Residency Program. The Quartet participated fully in the community, performing on countless occasions for audiences of six to 600 in a residency so successful that it was widely chronicled in the national and international media, including features in The New York Times and STRAD magazine and on CBS Sunday Morning.

The Ying Quartet won recognition for its exceptional musical qualities when it was honored with the 1993 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. In the years since, the Yings have established an international reputation for excellence in performance with appearances in virtually every major American city. The Quartet's 2005-2006 season included five concerts in New York City, four at Harvard University, and concerts in Washington, D.C. (at the Kennedy Center), Portland, Oregon, Saint Louis, Amsterdam, and Austin. Its numerous festival appearances include Tanglewood, Aspen, Skaneateles, and San Miguel; international touring has taken the Quartet to Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, and Taiwan. The Yings' enthusiasm for performing in diverse settings has led to concerts in Carnegie Hall, the White House, hospitals, and juvenile prisons. Frequent musical collaborations have included such artists as Menahem Pressler, Christopher Taylor, Paul Katz,

Gilbert Kalish, and the St. Lawrence and Turtle Island String Quartets. The EMI Classics recording of works by Osvaldo Golijov on which the Ying Quartet appears with the St. Lawrence Quartet was nominated for a 2003 Grammy Award. 4 + Four, a Ying/Turtle Island recording, was released in 2005 on Telarc (CD-80630), and received a 2005 Grammy Award in the Best Classical Crossover Category.

In 1999, the Quartet introduced LifeMusic, a multi-year commissioning project supported by the Institute for American Music, designed to produce a distinctively American string quartet repertoire. Each season, a pair of new works by established and emerging composers is featured in the Quartet's diverse repertoire. Thus far, the project has introduced new quartets by a dozen composers ranging from Michael Torke to Paquito D'Rivera.

In the 2007 season, they added works by Tod Machover and Patrick Zimmerli. The first in a projected series of LifeMusic recordings was released internationally on the Quartz label in 2004.

With "Dim Sum" which the Quartet recently performed at a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles and at the Kennedy Center, the Yings continue to extend their innovative programming concepts while celebrating their own cultural heritage. These programs include a selection of short works by Chinese-American composers in the framework of a traditional concert, giving audiences the treat of a diverse sampling of this music. The Quartet plans to commission new works by composers of Chinese background living around the globe to join existing pieces by Chou Wen-Chung, Zhou Long, Tan Dun, Bright Sheng, Vivian Fung, and Chen Yi.

As Quartet-in-Residence at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, the Ying Quartet plans and directs a rigorous, sequential chamber music curriculum that integrates intensive musical instruction with training in creative presentation and communication skills, and includes practical performance opportunities throughout the greater Rochester community. The Quartet has also taught at Northwestern University and at the Interlochen and Brevard Music Festivals, and, since 2001, the members of the Ying Quartet have been the Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University.