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To buy via phone, please call 410-385-2638.
Thank you for your interest in attending our concerts.
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From: Wed, 04/30/08
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To: Mon, 04/30/07
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07:00 PM
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08:00 PM
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Location: An die Musik Live
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Contact:
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(410) 385-2638
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Admission is free; we suggest a $10 donation
PROGRAM:
Schubert - String Quartet No. 13 in A minor (the Rosamunde Quartet), Op. 29
Hindemith - String Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 10
Vieen Leung, Annie Hsu, Isa Mensz, and Lisa Kang became the Knopp Quartet in their second semester of freshman year at the Peabody Institute, spring of 2007. Prior to that, Vieen Leung, Isa Mensz, and Lisa Kang were in a piano quartet together. The Knopp Quartet gave a recital that same semester, performing the Debussy String Quartet in g minor in its entirety. The following fall semester, they learned and performed the Schubert "Rosamunde" String Quartet in a minor. This current semester, the Knopp Quartet is working on the Hindemith String Quartet in f minor, op. 10 in hopes of holding a recital including the Schubert. The Knopp Quartet hopes to spend the summer together at an institution, where they will continue to grow and build a foundation that will support them for their many future endeavors.
Vieen Leung, violinist - Vieen Leung, a native of Hong Kong, is an active soloist, chamber musician and orchestral violinist. She was introduced to violin when she was five years old. From the age of five to sixteen, her major teachers include Dennis Kim, Zhang Shi-Sheng and Li Wing Shun. Leung was a yearly winner in all the major Hong Kong violin competitions. She also won the second place in the National violin competition in China when she was 12 and the first place when she was 15, and she made her solo debut with Hong Kong Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra when she was 9. Since then, she performed widely in Hong Kong, playing in recitals and as a soloist with orchestras.
As an active orchestral violinist, Leung was the concertmaster of Hong Kong Children’s Symphony Orchestra from 2003 to 2006, and she is now serving as the concertmaster of the Peabody Concert Orchestra.
Leung now attends the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, as a sophomore, where she is studying with Victor Danchenko. At the Peabody Conservatory, Leung was a member of the Peabody Chamber opera orchestra in 2007 and is a member of the Peabody Camerata. She has also worked with chamber music faculty members Michael Kannen, Alison Wells, Seth Knopp and Maria Lambros. Summer studies have taken her to European Youth Summer Music, Yellow Barn Young Artists’ program, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and she is going to Tanglewood Music Center in summer 2008. Leung currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland and often she spends her holidays away from college in Hong Kong.
Annie Hsu began playing the violin at age 8 and the piano at age 4 in Taiwan. After immigrating to Vancouver BC, Canada, she started studying the violin with Lucia Schipperus at Langley Community Music School and master classes with Gwen Thompson. She has entered many municipal and provincial competitions on both violin and piano, including the Canadian Music Competition. She was a member of Delta Youth Orchestra, and then served as principal second in Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra. She had also participated in summer music festivals such as the Niagara International Chamber Music Festival, Heifetz International Music Institute, and the Aspen Music Festival, and studied with renowned teachers including Julia Bushkova, Atis Bankas, and Herbert Greenberg. She is currently a sophomore at the Peabody Conservatory and a student of Herbert Greenberg.
Violist Isabella Mensz is from New Haven, Connecticut. She began her musical studies at age four on the violin, and switched to viola at age ten. In high school she studied with Jody Rowitsch and attended California Summer Music, where she studied with Carol Rodland. In summer 2007, Isabella was principal of the Concert Orchestra at the Aspen Music Festival and School . She will return there this summer on an Orchestral String Fellowship. She has participated in master classes with Heidi Castleman, Roberto Diaz, James Dunham, and John Graham. She is currently a sophomore at the Peabody Conservatory where she is principal of the Concert Orchestra and studies with Victoria Chiang.
Cellist Lisa Kang is a native of Los Angeles, California. She began her cello studies at 8 with Josephine Ha. Since then she has studied with Jason Gu, Dr. Richard Naille, and Rachael Lonergan. Lisa has placed first in various local competitions sponsored by the American String Teachers’ Association and the Music Teachers’ Association of California. She made her solo debut performing the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the West Valley Symphony in September of 2005. She was also featured as a solo artist with the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Symphony. After completing her Certificate of Merit, she was chosen to become a member of the Young Artist Guild. She currently studies with David Hardy at the Peabody Institute of Music with a merit scholarship.
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