The Ying Quartet teams up with PUSH, a physical theatre company based in Rochester, NY, for a collaboration being termed a “creative collision.” They will perform at the Eastman School of Music on March 29 & March 30.
Watch Fox Rochester’s interview with David Ying and Darren Stevenson, PUSH co-founder and co-director, here.
KCMetropolis lauded the Ying Quartet’s recent performance in Kansas City as being “emotive, gorgeous, and playful” while exhibiting a “beautiful balance of recklessness and stability.” Read the full review here.
The Ying Quartet was recently joined in Spokane by cellist and Northwest BachFest’s Artistic Director Zuill Bailey for a program of Mendelssohn, Berg, and Beethoven. The Spokesman-Review raved that the Quartet was “perfectly matched” and displayed their trademark “fearsome virtuosity… [and] magisterial command.”
Read the full review here.
Sono Luminous recently released our newest CD, Re-Imagined, which includes 2 cello quintet versions of the Schumann cello concerto and the Beethoven "Kreutzer" Sonata, with guest artist Zuill Bailey.
It's a delicate balance in a string quartet to find the right blend of personalities and the creative drive and direction necessary to stay at the highest level. For the Ying Quartet, that balance has been a part of their story from the beginning. It began with four siblings: David, Janet, Phillip and Timothy.
In the early 1990s, four siblings each made their way to the Eastman School of Music to study their string instrument of choice. Although they all arrived separately, and for their own reasons, all of them were drawn to Eastman because of the reputation of their string quartet in residence: the Cleveland Quartet.
