Name: The Amber Quartet
Start: 2023-12-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-12-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: NCPA

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National Centre for the Performing Arts

Orchestra

Amber Quartet

The Amber Quartet

Beijing

China

NCPA

Concert Hall

The Amber Quartet: String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, D. 87 Schubert (+2 More)

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String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, D. 87

Folk Song Suite

String Quartet in G minor, op. 10

Pallavi Pawar

Approved

The Amber Quartet was founded in 2005, its members teaching at the Central Conservatory of Music. As an outstanding chamber ensemble in contemporary China, the Amber Quartet remains active on the international stage and has appeared at many of the world’s top music festivals, giving a series of high-standard performances on behalf of China. The Amber Quartet has a broad academic vision, its repertoire covering what were composed in every period of the 400-year string quartet history. Their students have carried off many awards in solo and chamber music competitions at home and abroad. The Amber Quartet has received high accolades from the international music scene, and is praised as “one of the leaders in the contemporary international chamber music circle” by Prof. Guenter Pichler, a chamber master at the Alban Berg Quartet.

The Amber Quartet has rewritten the history of Chinese chamber music many times. It won three awards in the Asia-Pacific Chamber Music Competition, Melbourne, including the Highest Prize, First Prize for String Quartet, and Award for the Best Interpreter of Modern Works, becoming the first Chinese ensemble to win First Prize in an international professional chamber music competition, achieving a historic breakthrough in Chinese chamber music. The Amber Quartet was also the first Asian string quartet to be invited to the world’s chamber music festival—Montreal International Quartet Festival, and first state-sponsored Chinese string quartet to be admitted to the International Chamber Music School of Madrid and graduate with full marks. It is also the only Chinese inheritor of the Alban Berg Quartet, an international legendary ensemble.

The Amber Quartet is active on the international music stage. Every year, it delivers more than 40 concerts worldwide at the invitation of a dozen countries and regions worldwide. It has given high-level performances on many state occasions. In the 2019-2020 season, the Amber Quartet was invited to the time-honoured Beethoven Festival Bonn and held a special concert there, arousing strong repercussions among all walks of life at home and abroad. Moreover, it was invited to the Great Hall of the People to perform in the Golden Hall for the Chinese and French leaders, winning high praise. It has been reported and interviewed by domestic and foreign media including the world’s authoritative music magazine The Strad, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Radio Nacional de Espana (RNE), Upper Austria Journal and Ouhua Times Spain.

The Amber Quartet develops under the tutelage of CHEN Yun and YU Bing, professors at the Central Conservatory of Music, and Prof. Guenter Pichler, a chamber master at the Alban Berg Quartet. They have also received guidance from many international chamber music masters including Gerhard Schulz, Valentin Erben, Michael Tree, Harald Schoneweg, Wolfgang Jahn, GONG Hanxiang, etc.

Members of the Amber Quartet are the first violinist NING Fangliang, second violinist SU Yajing, violist QI Wang, and cellist YANG Yichen. In 2017, MA Weijia, Assistant Concertmaster of China NCPA Orchestra, joined the Amber Quartet as a guest second violinist.

Members of the Amber Quartet use four time-honoured Italian instruments, which are more than 1,200 years old altogether, donated by the Hong Kong China Fund. The instrument cases used by the Amber Quartet are donated by BAM CASES, an internationally renowned case manufacturer. Since 2018, the world’s top score publisher G. Henle has been offering scores gratuitously to the Amber Quartet.

English

琥珀四重奏创立于2005年，任教于中央音乐学院，作为中国代表性弦乐四重奏团，获得国际乐坛高度赞誉，多次书写中国室内乐历史：他们是第一组在国际职业室内乐比赛中获得首奖的中国组合、首个荣获“德国G.Henle Verlag 弦乐四重奏大使”“法国BAM CASES音乐大使”荣誉的中国组合，琥珀四重奏是中央音乐学院自建校以来首任驻校弦乐四重奏，也是中国首个驻校职业弦乐四重奏团。
  琥珀四重奏广泛活跃于国际舞台，演出足迹遍布世界十几个国家的音乐厅，登上德国波恩贝多芬音乐节、加拿大Misqa音乐节等世界核心舞台，获得国际乐坛高度赞誉。法新社：“他们的音乐光彩夺目”；室内乐大师 Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet) ：“他们是当代国际室内乐领域的引领者之一”；指挥大师洛林·马泽尔：“琥珀四重奏——卓越的组合”。诺贝尔文学奖获得者作家莫言：“琥珀四重奏，余音绕梁。”
  琥珀四重奏具备开阔的学术视野，研究作品包含弦乐四重奏历史中的各个时期，参与完成了多项重点研究项目，代表中国完成了一系列高规格国事演出和中外交流活动。他们在NCPA唱片公司发行的《莫扎特与张朝》唱片，是国家大剧院音乐厅首个净场弦乐四重奏录音，在NAXOS唱片公司发行的《门德尔松作品集》成为NAXOS音乐图书馆收录的首个中国版本。
  琥珀四重奏艺术家为：第一小提琴：宁方亮；第二小提琴：苏雅菁；中提琴：戚望；大提琴：杨一晨，他们均为中央音乐学院在编教师。国家大剧院管弦乐团助理首席马魏家，担任特邀第二小提琴。他们在国内外多项音乐赛事中担任评委，教授的学生在数十项国内外音乐比赛中获奖。
  琥珀四重奏使用四把名贵的意大利乐器，由中国香港中华基金慷慨给予。

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