November 6, 2007
 
Press Contact: Eileen McMahon
 
212-875-5391, emcmahon@lincolncenter.org 
 
 
 
Award-Winning Formosa Quartet to Perform New York City premiere of
 
Shih-Hui Chen's Mei Hua for String Quartet, as well as Works by
Mendelssohn, Gershwin and Wolf,
 
in Great Performers Concert at Lincoln Center, Sunday, December 9
 
 
 
 Lincoln Center's Great Performers series will present the award-winning
Formosa Quartet on Sunday, December 9 at 11 AM at a "Sunday Morning
Coffee Concert" in the Walter Reade Theater. The quartet will perform
the New York City premiere of Shih-Hui Chen's Mei Hua for String
Quartet, which is inspired by Plum Blossoms, a popular South China
melody dating back to 500 AD, as well as works by Mendelssohn, Gershwin,
and Wolf.
 
 
 
Tickets are $20 and are available at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office at
65th Street and Broadway, through CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or on
the Lincoln Center website at LincolnCenter.org. On Sunday mornings
before each concert, remaining tickets are available for cash purchase
at the Walter Reade Box Office. The Walter Reade Theater is located at
165 West 65th Street.
 
 
 
Winners of the First Prize and the Amadeus Prize at the Tenth London
International String Quartet Competition in 2006, the Formosa Quartet
was formed in 2003 when the four founding members came together for a
concert tour of Taiwan, the land of their shared heritage. Their debut
CD was critically praised. With recent performances at the Ravinia
Festival, the Chicago Cultural Center, Wigmore Hall, and the Royal
Academy of Music, the Formosa Quartet's 2007-08 season includes concerts
at the New School in New York, the Caramoor Festival, the Library of
Congress in Washington D.C., San Francisco State University, and the Da
Camera Society of Los Angeles, and a tour of the United Kingdom, in
addition to this Great Performers appearance at Lincoln Center.
 
 
 
The members of the Formosa Quartet - Jasmine Lin, Joseph Lin, Che-yen
Chen, and Jacob Braun - have already established themselves as leading
solo, chamber, and orchestral musicians. With degrees from Juilliard,
the New England Conservatory, the Cleveland Institute, Curtis, Harvard,
and Yale, they have performed in major venues around the world. They
have been top prize winners in the Primrose, Paganini, Naumburg, Michael
Hill, and Hannover competitions. As chamber musicians, they have
appeared regularly at the Marlboro, Caramoor, and Ravinia festivals, and
at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. They have held title
positions in the San Diego and Cincinnati Symphonies and have been on
the chamber music faculty at Interlochen, University of California San
Diego, Taos School of Music, and Northwestern University.
 
 
 
Composer Shih-Hui Chen was born in 1962 in Taiwan, and has lived in the
United States since 1982. Her orchestral and chamber compositions have
been performed worldwide, and she currently teaches composition at the
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University in Houston, Texas. Her
commissions and fellowships include The Koussevitzky Music Foundation,
Guggenheim Foundation, Tanglewood Music Center, and the Rockefeller
Foundation's Bellagio Study Center. Chen is a 2007 American Academy of
Arts and Letters
 
Goddard Lieberson Fellowship winner. 
 
 
 
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Great Performers presents


"Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts"

Sunday, December 9, 2007 at 11AM
 
Walter Reade Theater
 
Formosa Quartet
 

Mendelssohn:	String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
Shih-Hui Chen:	Mei Hua for String Quartet (New York City premiere)
Gershwin:	Lullaby
Wolf:	Italienische Serenade

Tickets are $20 and are available at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office,
W. 65th Street and Broadway, through CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, or on
the Lincoln Center website at LincolnCenter.org
<http://www.lincolncenter.org/> . On Sunday mornings before each
concert, remaining tickets are available for cash purchase only at the
Walter Reade Box Office. 
 
 
 
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