Lunar New Year is the most broadly observed holiday in Asian culture, and the Nashville Symphony’s inaugural Lunar New Year program will reflect how different communities and ethnic groups celebrate the occasion. Nashville Symphony Associate Conductor Nathan Aspinall will conduct the concert which marks the Year of the Dragon and features arrangements of traditional melodies and original music from Chinese composers He Zhanhou, Chen Gang, and Li Huanzhi; Singaporean composers Phoon Yew Tien and Kelly Tang; and Vietnamese-American composer Viet Cuong. Erhu virtuoso Ma Xiaohui, who performed with Yo-Yo Ma on the award-winning soundtrack of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, will be the featured soloist, performing excerpts from He Zhanhao and Chen Gang’s The Butterfly Lovers Concerto and the traditional melody “Horse Racing.” In addition, Jen-Jen Lim, Director/Artistic Director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, will create original choreography for Li Huanzhi’s Spring Festival Overture. The concert culminates with Igor Stravinsky’s Suite from The Firebird, a classic symphonic concert work nodding to the Year of the Dragon by evoking a mythical, winged creature.

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Program

Caroline Shaw, and the swallow
Tan Dun, III. Pink Actress, IV. Black Dance, V. Zen, aus: Eight Colors
Vivian Fung, Pizzicato
Claude Debussy, II. Assez vif et bien rythmé, III. Andantino, doucement expressif, aus: Streichquartett g-Moll, op. 10, bearbeitet für Streichorchester
Andrew Norman, Sabina

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MSM Chamber Music Festival: MSM Artists in Residence: American String Quartet

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Dive into an enchanting underwater world as Hans Christian Andersen's beloved tale, The Little Mermaid, comes to life with music! With captivating storytelling and the magical melodies from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suites, this family-friendly concert promises an unforgettable musical adventure.

Dana Gilbert, conductor

Program
Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt (selections of Suite No. 1 & 2
Vivian Fung: Pizzicato
Elizabeth Raum: Woodwind Quintet (excerpt)

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Dive into an enchanting underwater world as Hans Christian Andersen's beloved tale, The Little Mermaid, comes to life with music! With captivating storytelling and the magical melodies from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suites, this family-friendly concert promises an unforgettable musical adventure.

Dana Gilbert, conductor

Program
Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt (selections of Suite No. 1 & 2
Vivian Fung: Pizzicato
Elizabeth Raum: Woodwind Quintet (excerpt)

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Suites, Soirées and a Symphony

Our first concert of the 2024-25 season, under Conductor Jeffrey Pollock, featuring Stravinsky, Dvořák  and other composers, will be a great start to the new season.  

Program:

Vivian Fung - Pizzicato, str
Manuel de Falla - Ritual Fire Dance from El amor brujo 
Igor Stravinsky - Suites 1 & 2 for Small orchestra 
Benjamin Britten - Soirées Musicales

Intermission

Antonin Dvořák - Symphony 8   

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American String Quartet at Luzerne Music Center

Program:

Beethoven, String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat Major, Op. 18 No. 6
Shaw, Blueprint
Fung, Pizzicato
Ravel, String Quartet in F Major, M. 35

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The final concert "Potpourri" will take our audience to a premier private residence in Pebble Beach. As we revive and modernize this "music in chamber" tradition in a beautiful home of our time, we match it with a program that tells the stories of us today in a unique aspect of the world now— merely a click away at our fingertips, you can access the whole world. See how artists weave together cultural essences beautifully and immerse us in different worlds moment to moment.

The program includes the world premiere of Kian Ravaei's commission written for Sunkiss'd Mozart Summerfest 2024.

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For our season finale we welcome back the American, surely one of the finest string quartets performing today. In their 45-plus years, the ASQ has performed worldwide and recorded the complete string quartets of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, and Bartók. “Luxurious, beautifully sculptured performances” New Yorker.

Program

Beethoven, String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 18, no. 6, “La Malinconia”
Caroline Shaw, Blueprint
Vivian Fung, Pizzicato
Schubert, Quartet in A Minor, D. 804, “Rosamunde”

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American String Quartet w/ Wendy Chen, piano

Program

Beethoven, String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 18, no. 6, “La Malinconia”
Caroline Shaw, Blueprint
Vivian Fung, Pizzicato
Brahms, Quintet for Piano and Strings in F Minor, Op. 34

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Fredonia Chamber Orchestra performs Pizzicato.

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Henry M. Gunn High School Chamber Orchestra performs Pizzicato at the Orchestra Cup Competition.

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Welcome the Year of the Dragon with the San Francisco Symphony! Our annual Lunar New Year event draws upon Asian traditions, past and present, in a celebration of music and community.

Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
Paul Huang, Violin

Program

Spring Festival Overture, Huan-zhi Li
New Year Greetings, Phoon Yew Tien
Jasmine Flower, Traditional (arr. Li Wenping)
Music from Folk Songs for Orchestra, Huang Ruo
Pizzicato, Vivian Fung
Music from Violin Concerto: Fire Ritual, Tan Dun
Ali Mountain Evergreen, Che Chang (arr. Yuan-kai Bao)
Gong Xi Gong Xi, Chen Ge Xin (arr. Che-Yi Lee)

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Grand prize winner of the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and winner of the prestigious 2016 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, this adventurous young group is known for “a combination of brilliance and subtlety.” (The Telegraph)

Program

BRITTEN, Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25
WALKER, Quartet No. 1 “Lyric”
FUNG, Pizzicato from Quartet No. 1
DVOŘÁK, Quartet in A-flat Major, Op. 105

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MSM Artists in Residence: American String Quartet

Program
Schubert, Quartet in A Minor, D. 804, “Rosamunde”
Shaw, Blueprint
Fung, Pizzicato
Brahms, Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 67

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The American String Quartet will be performing at the Music Mountain Summer Festival in Falls Village, Connecticut.

Program

F. Schubert, String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 29, D. 804, “Rosamunde”
Vivian Fung, Pizzicato
Caroline Shaw, Blueprint
L. van Beethoven, Quartet in F Major, Op. 135

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The Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival is having their 42nd season from July 1 - August 6, 2023. The Week Three Series from July 15-18 features The American String Quartet for their 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Program

Schubert, Rosamunde
Fung, Pizzicato
Beethoven, Quartet in F Major, Op. 135

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The Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival is having their 42nd season from July 1 - August 6, 2023. The Week Three Series July 15-18 features The American String Quartet for their 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Program

Schubert, Rosamunde
Fung, Pizzicato
Beethoven, Quartet in F Major, Op. 135

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The San Jose Chamber Orchestra is performing the world premiere of “ZOFO Encajonado,” a concertino in three movements for piano four hands, cajon and strings, on May 14 at 7 p.m. at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 1025 Pine Ave.

Pablo Ortiz wrote the piece for ZOFO—pianists Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi—who will play  with the San José Chamber Orchestra under conductor Barbara Day Turner.

The program also features the Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, with 2022 Klein winner Jaewon Wee as violin soloist, and a trio of short works by composers Brent Heisinger, Vivian Fung and Astor Piazzolla.

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Guitarist Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo joins Ensemble Urbain for an exciting evening of music ranging from the 18th century to today. "Convergence" unites the sounds of bowed string instruments (violin, viola, & cello) with those of both acoustic and electric guitar.

Programme:
Ester Mägi - A Tre (1991)
Vivian Fung - Pizzicato (2001)
Satchel Henneman - that virgin space (2023)
Luigi Boccherini - Quintet for guitar & strings in D major

Artistes:
JuEun Lee, Julia Mirzoev & William Thain, violons/violins
Marilou Lepage, alto/viola
Joshua Morris, violoncelle/cello
Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo, guitare/guitar

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2023 Skidmore String Festival: The American String Quartet

Recognized as one of the world's finest quartets, the American String Quartet has spent decades honing the luxurious sound for which it is famous. This evening-length performance will include performances of Franz Schubert’s slow and gracious String Quartet in A minor (“Rosamunde”); Blueprint, composed by Caroline Shaw as a “harmonic reduction” of Beethoven’s String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 6; Vivian Fung’s Pizzicato, a short work during which the players never use their bows; ending with Ludwig van Beethoven’s last quartet, through which he asks, “Muss es sein?”

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Sphere is excited to present “Vintage,” a program that will bring us back to our self-conducted roots with works spanning our 12-year history. We will revisit some of our favorites from our debut album Divergence and bring you a few new pieces that showcase our fabulous musicians.

Hear Sphere perform the music of Aldemaro Romero, Styx, Ravel, The Beatles, Vivian Fung, Elgar, Stevie Wonder, Aleksandra Vrebalov and more! Our beloved colleague Alejandro Gómez Guillén, newly hired as the Assistant Conductor with Omaha Symphony, will be back with us for our annual concert and fundraiser “Have a Ball with Sphere” on May 7!

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Sphere is excited to present “Vintage,” a program that will bring us back to our self-conducted roots with works spanning our 12-year history. We will revisit some of our favorites from our debut album Divergence and bring you a few new pieces that showcase our fabulous musicians.

Hear Sphere perform the music of Aldemaro Romero, Styx, Ravel, The Beatles, Vivian Fung, Elgar, Stevie Wonder, Aleksandra Vrebalov and more! Our beloved colleague Alejandro Gómez Guillén, newly hired as the Assistant Conductor with Omaha Symphony, will be back with us for our annual concert and fundraiser “Have a Ball with Sphere” on May 7!

A live stream will be available!

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The Richmond Symphony returns to Hardywood for chamber classics, craft beer, pizza, and fun.

Program

Kyunga Ahn, Around Us
Vivian Fung, Pizzicato
Kenji Bunch, Supermaximum
Yasushi Akutagawa, Triptyque
Zhou Long, 8 Folk Songs

Dina Gilbert, guest conductor
Marina Thibeault, viola

Vivian Fung | Pizzicato 
Pēteris Vasks | Viola Concerto
Dvořák | Symphony No. 8

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IPO String Quartet performs “Pizzicato”

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Program

• Vivian FUNG Pizzicato

• Juan Felipe Waller Teguala

• Kaija SAARIAHO Trois Rivières (Three Rivers)

• Additional programming to be announced

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