VC LIVE | Bowdoin International Music Festival Presents The Ying Quartet

Tune in here on Monday, July 10 at 7:30 PM(ET) for an exciting concert presenting works by Mozart, Kevin Puts, & Dvořák

We're coming at you live from the Bowdoin International Music Festival, one of the world’s premier music institutes. Founded in 1964, the Festival engages exceptional students and enthusiastic audiences through world-class education and performances. Each summer, 250 students from more than 20 countries and nearly every state attend the Festival to study with distinguished faculty and guest artists.

This concert features the Ying Quartet performing works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Kevin Puts, and Antonín Dvořák.

Ying Quartet:
Robin Scott, Janet Ying, violin • Phillip Ying, viola • David Ying, cello 

Program:

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat Major, K. 589, Op. 18, No. 2, “Prussian” 

KEVIN PUTS (b. 1972) 
Dark Vigil 

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904
String Quartet No. 13 in G Major, Op. 106 

About the Ying Quartet:

Now in its third decade, the Ying Quartet has performed in many of the world’s most important concert halls. At the same time, the Quartet’s belief that concert music can also be a meaningful part of everyday life has also drawn the foursome to perform in settings as diverse as the workplace, schools, juvenile prisons, and the White House.

The Ying Quartet’s CD “American Anthem” (Sono Luminus), heralding the music of Randall Thompson, Samuel Barber, and Howard Hanson, was released in 2013. Their 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.

As 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 have the opportunity to perform in community settings beyond the concert hall. The Quartet is the ensemble-in-residence at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and from 2001-2008, the members of the Ying Quartet were the Blodgett Artistsin-Residence at Harvard University.