Interviews
Chat with Fencing World-Champion Vivian Kong
May 2021 @ LeeHysan Concert Hall, CUHK
Cong Quartet & Fencing World Champion Vivian Kong had a little chat (in Cantonese) about how music, arts & sports are related to each other’s, and what are the experiences of being athletes & musicians.
Cong Quartet on RTHK “the works”
Jan 2021 @ Studio One, RTHK
The Cong Quartet was interviewed by the TV show “The Works” on RTHK Channel 31. We talked a little about the quartet & performed the last movement from Haydn’s String Quartet Op.33 no.1 at the end of the show.
Performances
Lunchpauzeconcert Live in TivoliVredenburg (2021)
Oct 2021 @ Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
Live Concert
Beethoven: String Quartet No.11, Op. 95 “Serioso”
Caroline Shaw: Plan & Elevation, The Grounds of Dumbarton Oaks
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A major, op.13
Schubert: String Quartet No.13 in A minor, “Rosamunde” 2nd mVT
Schubertiade IV: Cong Quartet and Friends
Sept 2023 @ Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong
Part of our “Schubertiade” project, which we performed 7 all-schubert concerts in France, the Netherlands & Hong Kong from the end of 2022 to early 2024.
Music in Heritage - 95th Anniversary of Public Service Broadcasting in Hong Kong
Dec 2023@HKSKH Holy Trinity Cathedral, Hong Kong
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, 1st mvt
Cong Quartet / Rachel Cheung (piano)
Also in the concert:
CHUNG Wing-sum: Late Autumn View
Adrian WONG: Childhood Sweet for string quartet
HAYDN: String Quartet No. 61 in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2, Hob.III:76, ‘Quinten’
Final Round of Kreutzer International Music Competition
Aug 2021 @ Francis Auditorium, Mary Baldwin University, Virginia, USA
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A major, op.13 (1st and 2nd movement)
Schubert: Quartettsatz in c minor, D.703
Schubert:
Quartettsatz, D. 703
Dec 2022 @Y theatre, Youth Square, Hong Kong
Kevin Puts: Credo (2007)
2018@ Concert Hall, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
“Credo” means “To Believe” in Latins, was a piece written by composer Kevin Puts when he was asked to write something about the “lighter side of his country”. With the negative events and injustice around the society, Kevin struggled to find inspirations for his music.
“When I was writing this piece, I found it very difficult to find inspirations in the events surrounding me in our country, and i feel even more that way today, we are in a very divisive situation, its a very dark time. And I think we artists have to rely on our own positive experiences between people in our own lives to find inspirations.”
A little gift to our home, Hong Kong.
Anthony Cheng: Dark Side of the City - Prologue for String Quartet (2019)
2019 @ Concert Hall, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
The Prologue a “prelude” of the series of my music-visual artworks “Dark Side of the City” which merely explores all possibilities of interaction between new music and visual elements in order to uncover the dark side of Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, not only food, housing, medical treatment at public expense and retirement protection are the underlying problems for most peoples, but also something more “inner” in most peoples’ heart such as education system, political situation and new immigration upsurge are definitely our social tragedies under the splendid megacity of Hong Kong.
Edward Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings Quartet and Orchestra, Op.47 (1905)
Wilbur Lin, Conductor
Indiana University Student Orchestra
2016 @ Recital Hall, Indiana University