Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts

Faculty Artist Series: The Wild, The Pop & The Comic - Formosa Quartet in Collaboration with MSM

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join the Moores School of Music and the Formosa Quartet for a delightful evening of music spanning beauty, humor, and madness in the “The Wild, the Pop, and the Comic!” This is the second of five Faculty Artist Series performances hosted at the beautiful and intimate Zilkha Hall. Featuring Kirsten Yon, Mann-Wen Lo (violins), Amber Archibald (viola), Eunghee Cho (cello) and Timothy Hester (piano) alongside the Formosa Quartet, you won’t want to miss this entertaining evening filled with comedic and curious works.

Winners of the First Prize and Amadeus Prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, the FORMOSA QUARTET has been hailed as “spellbinding” (The Strad) and “remarkably fine” (Gramophone), and has given critically acclaimed performances at the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Da Camera Society of Los Angeles, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Wigmore Hall in London, die Glocke Bremen, and the Kammermusiksaal at the Berliner Philharmonie.

The members of the Formosa Quartet – Jasmine Lin, David Bernat, Matthew Cohen, and Deborah Pae – have established themselves as leading solo, chamber, and orchestral musicians. With degrees from the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Colburn Conservatory, and the Cleveland Institute of Music, they have performed in major venues throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe and have been top prizewinners in prestigious competitions such as the Paganini, Primrose, Fischoff, and Naumburg competitions.

To learn more about the Formosa Quartet, please visit: www.formosaquartet.com

PROGRAM

Geminiani/Michi Wiancko: La FolliA
Featuring UH String Orchestra, Kirsten Yon and Mann-Wen Lo (violins); Amber Archibald (viola); Eunghee Cho (cello); Formosa Quartet

A Formosa Quartet Set*
Formosa Quartet

Intermission

Stephen Prutsman: “Sherlock Jr” with a screening of Buster Keaton’s 1924 comedy “Sherlock, Jr.”
Timothy Hester, piano; Formosa Quartet

(*)The Formosa Quartet Set is an assortment of shorts from the FQ’s collection of folk, pop, jazz, and poetry arrangements. Curated especially for each concert, our Set is like a flight of desserts after a main course, offering a chance for audiences to “let their hair down,” tap their toes, and enjoy the string quartet medium in somewhat less-conventional contexts.