Missouri news

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

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