Series: Classical
Date:Friday, March 6, 2009
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Conference Center (Due to ongoing campus construction, patrons should access the Conference Center via Waterview Parkway and Drive A. - map )

Ticket Prices: get your tickets through the Dallas Chamber Music website or call 972-392-3267.

Free to UTD Students with UTD Photo ID at the venue box office the night of the event. Discounts are available to faculty, staff, alumni, retirees and students. Please review our ticket policy.

Timothy Ying, violin
Janet Ying, violin
Phillip Ying viola
David Ying, cello

In 1992 as the first artists involved in the National Endowment for the Arts Chamber Music Rural Residencies Program, the Ying siblings moved from Chicago to Jesup, Iowa and established the Ying Quartet.  Their successful residency was featured nationally and internationally.  Currently, the Quartet tours internationally and serves as the quartet-in-residence for the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, where the Yings teach in the string department and direct a rigorous chamber music program. 

In 2005, the ensemble won a Grammy® Award in the Best Classical Crossover category for “4 + Four,” a collaboration with Turtle Island Quartet that  explored the common ground between the classic string quartet tradition and jazz and other American vernacular styles.  The Ying Quartet album “Souvenir de Florence and Tchaikovsky Quartets Nos. 1-3” was nominated in 2007 for a Grammy® Award in the Best Chamber Music Performance category.  According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the ensemble’s most recent album, “Dim Sum,” provides “splendid listening” with “something here for all tastes…all of which is rendered with tenderness and flair.”

The evening's program will include:

Il Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums) by Puccini

Musical Dim Sum: selections by Chinese-American composers

Quartet in G minor, Op .10 by Debussy

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