Beethoven String Quartet Op. 95 'Serioso' - Allegretto ma non troppo Allegro assai vivace ma serioso

Min-Young Kim, violinist
Tang Tee Khoon, violinist
Hsin-Yun Huang, violist
Adrian Brendel, cellist
Live Recording 'Beethoven Heroic Years' 28 May 2017 Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore by Rolton Productions
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Min-Young Kim
Violinist Min-Young Kim is a founding member and first violinist of the internationally acclaimed Daedalus Quartet, winner of the Banff String Quartet Competition. With the quartet, she performs regularly throughout the North America, Europe and Asia. She has toured extensively with Musicians from Marlboro, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has collaborated with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Cleveland and, Takács Quartets. An advocate for music of our time, Ms. Kim enjoys working closely with composers and has performed many new works. In early music, she has performed and recorded with Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra and New York Collegium.
A graduate of Harvard University and the Juilliard School, Ms. Kim teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Her major teachers include Donald Weilerstein, Robert Mann and Shirley Givens.
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..
Hsin-Yun Huang
Hsin-Yun Huang has forged a career as one of the leading violists of her generation since winning the gold medal at the 1988 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition. She has been soloist with the Berlin Radio Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Zagreb Soloists, and the London Sinfonia, among others; and performs regularly at festivals, including Marlboro, Spoleto, Rome, and Santa Fe. She was a member of the Borromeo String Quartet from 1994 to 2000.
Hsin-Yun actively commissions works for solo viola and chamber ensemble. Her 2012 recording, Viola Viola for Bridge Records, include commissions from Shih-Hui Chen and Steven Mackey, and works by E. Carter, P. Ruders, and G. Benjamin. Upcoming recording projects include the complete Solo Bach Violin Sonatas and Partitas on the Viola, to be released in 2017.
Hsin-Yun serves as viola faculty at The Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School.
Adrian Brendel
One of the most versatile and original cellists of his generation, Adrian Brendel has travelled the world as soloist, collaborator and teacher. In 2014 he became a member of the Nash Ensemble of London.
Adrian first studied the cello with William Pleeth and went on to study with Alexander Baillie and Frans Helmerson in London and Cologne.
In great demand as a recitalist and soloist, his chamber music partners include Imogen Cooper, Till Fellner, Tim Horton, Kit Armstrong, Henning Kraggerud, and Lisa Batiashvili. Over the last two years he has visited the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Verbier, Salzburg, Enescu, Schubertiade and Ruhr festivals, and is a frequent visitor to the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein, and Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He has performed concertos with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, RSNO, SCO and many orchestras across Germany and Eastern Europe.
Adrian is artistic director of the Plush festival, held every summer in Plush, Dorset since 1995.