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About the event
Travel and romance have long inspired some of the greatest works. Fresh from their concert tour of Malaysia, Concordia Quartet presents a travelogue of Romantic works written while their composers were away from home.
The programme features Dvořák’s ‘American’ quintet, which incorporates the sights and sounds he experienced when he saw a Native American traveling circus, and Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Op. 44 No. 2, written while the composer was on honeymoon in the Black Forest.
The night is topped off by Schubert’s Quartettsatz, a work so exquisite and complete that some scholars believe Schubert deemed it needed no additional movements.
Violist Andrew Filmer from Malaysia joins the quartet members in the Dvořák String Quintet.
FEATURING
Concordia Quartet
Edward Tan, violin
Kim Kyu Ri, violin
Martin Peh, viola
Lin Juan, cello
Guest Musician
Andrew Filmer, viola
PROGRAMME
Franz Schubert
String Quartet in C minor, D.703 (String Quartet No.12, Quartettsatz)
Antonín Dvořák
String Quintet No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97, B180
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 44, No. 2
Programme duration ~ 90 min with 20 min intermission
About the organizer
About Resound Collective
Resound Collective Limited is a Singapore-based musicians’ collective and registered charity that promotes music for small orchestra and chamber ensembles. The company organises re:Sound, the first professional chamber orchestra in the country, and the Concordia Quartet, which made its debut in February 2020.
Members of the collective are conservatory-trained music majors, most of whom have attained post-graduate training around the world. They are among Singapore’s most talented and dedicated musicians, who share the vision of enriching the classical music landscape by performing at the highest level.
About Concordia Quartet
Concordia Quartet is a Singapore-based quartet that is part of a non-profit musicians collective, Resound Collective. The quartet made its debut in February 2020, and consists of four prize-winning musicians – Edward Tan, Kim Kyu Ri, Martin Peh and Lin Juan. They are the festival quartet in the upcoming Singapore Chamber Music Festival 2024.
Immediately following their debut, Concordia Quartet was part of the cast in Wild Rice’s The Importance of Being Earnest. When Covid-19 pandemic restrictions prevented events in concert halls, the quartet staged two live streamed concerts, in June and September 2020. Their highly innovative June 2020 live broadcast involved players performing from their homes, and was highlighted in the September issue of BBC Music Magazine.
In 2022, Concordia quartet was selected to take part in the Pacific Region International Summer Music Association (PRISMA) Academy in Canada as the quartet-in-residence where they gave recitals and worked with the renowned Lafayette Quartet. In 2023, the quartet was selected as one of the four string quartets to take part in HARPA International Music Academy (HIMA) USA’s String Quartet Intensive Programme in 2023 where they worked with former musicians from Pacifica Quartet and Cavani Quartet, and current members of Ariel Quartet and Blair Quartet.
With strong beliefs in community outreach, Concordia Quartet has presented a Christmas concert two years in a row at Gardens by the Bay’s Flower Dome, and are part of National Arts Council’s Arts Education Programme in their 2023-2025 cycle, reaching out to schools in Singapore and nurturing the next generation of classical music lovers.
Concordia Quartet has received masterclasses and coaching from the Lafayette Quartet, Verona Quartet, Nobuko Imai, Sibbi Bernhardsson, Mari Sato, Amit Even-Tov and Eric Wong.