Beethoven String Quartet in E-flat major Op. 127 Adagio, ma non troppo e molto cantabile

Tang Tee Khoon, violinist
Yuki Kasai, violinist
Jessica Thompson, violist
Olivia Jeremias, cellist
Live Recording 'Beethoven Last Years' 12 March 2016 Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore by Rolton Productions
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Tang Tee Khoon
Described as ‘a chamber musician of the highest order’, and a ‘national treasure’, and her playing as ‘truly transcendent’, Tee Khoon was named one of the 40 under 40 faces to watch by Prestige Singapore. She was the second-ever violinist to be awarded the loan of a J.B. Guadagnini violin by the National Arts Council in Singapore.
Tee Khoon performs internationally as a recitalist and a chamber musician and has collaborated with musicians such as Midori, Hsin-Yun Huang, Colin Carr, Ian Swenson, and members of the Emerson, Takács and Borromeo String Quartets. Her festival appearances include Seiji Ozawa’s International Music Academy in Switzerland and Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove U.K..
Yuki Kasai
Prizewinner of the 8th International Mozart Competition in Salzburg, Yuki has appeared at many festivals like the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Rheingau, Ultraschall Festival for New Music in Berlin, and Open Chamber Music in England. Yuki has also appeared in concerts at the Wigmore Hall in London, partnering musicians like Stephen Isserlis, Pekka Kuusisto and Joshua Bell. With the Italian bassoonist Sergio Azzolini who introduced her to the vivacity of performing Baroque music on period instruments, she has appeared in concerts in Germany, Switzerland and Italy.
Yuki currently leads the Kammerakademie Potsdam and the Ensemble Oriol Berlin. She also regularly plays as a guest in the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and guest leads the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
Jessica Thompson
Violist Jessica Thompson is a passionate chamber musician who performs regularly throughout the United States and abroad as a member of the Daedalus Quartet. The quartet, Grand Prize winner of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition and resident quartet at Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two from 2005-07, is currently in residence at the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Thompson has also toured with Musicians from Marlboro and appears regularly at the Portland Chamber Music Festival in Maine. She performs often as a member of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra.
Ms. Thompson has appeared as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra and in recital in cities such as Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC. She currently teaches at Princeton and Columbia Universities.
Olivia Jeremias
An outstanding cellist of her generation, Olivia’s concert experience by age 20 include having performed the Dvorak Cello Concerto with Sir Colin Davis in the Semperoper Dresden, and a concert broadcast on the radio by the German MDR-Kultur channel. Her recent solo appearances include performing the Dvorak and Haydn Cello Concertos with Philharmonic orchestra Zagreb, and the C.P.E Bach Cello Concerto in A major with the Royal Academy Soloists directed by Clio Gould.
Olivia is also an enthusiastic chamber musician. She has given concerts throughout Europe with pianists Christina Brandner and Katharina Happel. Olivia currently serves as principal cellist of the Philharmonic Orchestra Hamburg and plays on a Giovanni Granchino cello from 1698, on friendly loan by the "Maggini Stiftung" Switzerland.