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ProMusica Joplin hosts Grammy award-winning string quartet at Cornell Complex next week

KRPS | By Fred Fletcher-Fierro
Published March 20, 2023 at 5:19 AM CDT
Ying Quartet, l-r: Janet Ying (violin), Phillip Ying (viola) new first violinist Robin Scott, and David Ying (cello), in Wolk Atrium outside Hatch Hall at Eastman Theatre, Eastman School of Music March 23, 2015 // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester
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Ying Quartet, l-r: Janet Ying (violin), Phillip Ying (viola) new first violinist Robin Scott, and David Ying (cello), in Wolk Atrium outside Hatch Hall at Eastman Theatre, Eastman School of Music March 23, 2015 // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

The Ying Quartet was first nominated for a Grammy Award in 2003 for their recording works by Osvaldo Golijov recording with the St. Lawerence Quartet. The Quartet was again nominated for a Grammy in 2007 in the "Best Chamber Music Performance" category for recording the three Tchaikovsky Quartets and the Sextet on Telarc. The Quartet won a 2005 Grammy for its collaborative recording with the Turtle Island String Quartet, entitled 4+Four, and has recorded for the Telarc, Quartz, Elektra, and Albany record labels.

Next week, ProMusica Joplin will host its 6th performance of the 2022-2023 season. KRPS's Fred Fletcher-Fierro has more.

The chamber music-focused and Joplin-based non-profit, ProMusica, welcomes the Ying Quartet back to southwest Missouri. The Quartet first came to professional prominence in the early 1990s during their years as residents of Jesup, Iowa, a farm town of 2000 people.

Playing before audiences of six to six hundred in homes, schools, churches, and banks. He's a cut of the Ying Quartet in 2014 playing String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 41 No. 1

Currently, the Quartet is in-residence at the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where they teach in the string department and leads a rigorous chamber music program.

The Cornell Complex in Joplin will host the performance next Thursday, March 30. A pre-concert talk with the Quartet is scheduled from 6:10 - 6:30 pm; the concert starts at 7. The event is open to the public. More information at ProMusicaJoplin.com. For 89 9 KRPS News, I'm Fred Fletcher-Fierro
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Fred Fletcher-Fierro
Since 2017 Fred Fletcher-Fierro has driven up Highway 171 through thunderstorms, downpours, snow, and ice storms to host KRPS’s Morning Edition. He’s also a daily reporter for the station, covering city government, elections, public safety, arts, entertainment, culture, sports and more. Fred has also spearheaded and overseen a sea change in programming for KRPS from a legacy classical station to one that airs a balance of classical, news, jazz, and cultural programming that better reflects the diverse audience of the Four States. For over two months in the fall of 2022 he worked remotely with NPR staff to relaunch krps.org to an NPR style news and information website.

In the fall of 2023 Fred was promoted to Interim General Manager and was appointed GM in Feburary of 2024.
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