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| The East West String Quartet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The East West String Quartet was created when some friends began to play together for fun but then started to perform actively in 2003. The quartet is composed of violinists Haiying Li and Ji Young Rhee, violist Brian Lew and cellist Shiang-Yin Lee, all of whom have extensive chamber music experience. Three of them, immigrants from Asia, received their post-graduate degrees in the United States and currently teach at music schools in Seattle. As its name announces, the East West String Quartet aims to promote music from both Western and Eastern cultures. As there is already a large Western repertoire for string quartets, we would like to perform and stimulate interest in works by Asian/American composers. |
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| The East West String Quartet also provides chamber music for various events, such as receptions and meetings, church services and celebrations, weddings, christenings and funerals. We can provide you with a list of possible works we can perform at your event. Our standard repertoire is classical music (such as Haydn, Schubert and Dvorak). However, you are welcome to make suggestions to the program. If you provide the parts, the Quartet will perform the music requested. But if parts are not available, the Quartet will procure for them but cannot guarantee performance. The program should be determined at an opportune time ahead of the event For more information, or if you wish to book the Quartet, please contact us at your earliest convenience: |
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| An active performer and teacher, violinist Haiying Li received professional training as a soloist and chamber music performer in both China and the United States. Before moving to Seattle to pursue a DMA at the University of Washington, he was former director of The Music School, affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. For the past 10 years in Seattle, he has been training young artists in his private studio and in public schools. The first chair violinists from both Garfield and Washington orchestras are his students. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brian Lew studied the viola in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with Bela Mori, Juan Sarudiansky and Erich Lehninger. He continued in Germany with Bruno Giuranna at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie. While in Brazil, he performed in recitals and music festivals, and soloed with the State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eleazar de Carvalho, and premiered a concerto with the Piracicaba Orchestra dedicated to him by Ernst Mahle at the Sao Paulo Museum of Art. Formerly a violist with orchestras in Brazil, Germany and Taiwan, where he also taught at the Chinese Culture University, he is principal viola of the Northwest Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Bellevue Philharmonic. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Violinist Ji Young Rhee has a Master's of Music degrees in Violin Performance from both Bowling Green University and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. She also attended Eastman School of Music. An active performer in Seattle since she arrived in 1998, Ms Rhee is a member of both the Federal Way Symphony and the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, where she was concertmaster for three years. Her teachers include Won-Bin Yim, Piotr Milewski, Constantine Kiradjieff, James Tocco, Paul Makara, Han-Won Choi and Kon-Ki Kim. Ms Rhee has performed in various groups, including The Philharmonia (Cincinnati Conservatory of Music), Eighteenth Century Chamber Ensemble, Asheville Symphony, Perrysburg Symphony, Richmond Symphony and the Bowling Green Graduate String Quartet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cellist Shiang-Yin Lee received her DMA in Cello Performance from the University of Washington, a MM from the Univesrity of Texas at Austin and a BM with cum laude from the University of North Texas. Her teachers included Toby Saks, Raymond Davis, Phyllis Young, Yehuda Hanani and Marion Feldman. She has performed with Everett Symphony Orchestra, University of Washington Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Choral Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival Sinfonia, Puget Sound Symphony, Federal Way Symphony and the Texas Cello Choir. She has also given recitals in Washington, Texas and Taiwan. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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