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BISQC Concert 4: 21st Century Haydn Round

Isidore String Quartet at BISQC 2022

Isidore String Quartet, winners of BISQC 2022. Photo by Rita Taylor. 

 

One quartet will perform a complete work by Franz Joseph Haydn, as well as a complete quartet written on or after January 1, 2000. 

Cong Quartet

Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet Op. 33, No. 2 in E flat Major 
Lawrence Dillon: String Quartet No. 7, Consensus (2019) 
 

 

*please note: due to a quartet withdrawing from the competition, this concert will be approximately 30 minutes in length.

The Quartet

Cong Quartet

Cong Quartet. Photo by Cheng Kin To.

Francis Yiu-Ting Chik (he/him) - violin, Hong Kong
Hiu-Sing Fan (he/him) - violin, Hong Kong
Caleb Wong (he/him) - viola, Hong Kong
Yan-Ho Cheng (he/him) - cello, Hong Kong

Formed at the Indiana University in 2015, Cong Quartet recently served the 2023 artistic residency of Musique à Flaine and was the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) from 2019-22. The quartet is part of the Nederlandse Strijkkwartet Academie (NSKA), a musical partner of Domaine de La Garde in France, and a member of Le Dimore del Quartetto in Italy.

Drawing from the mentorship of the Pacifica Quartet at Jacobs School of Music, Ivan Chan at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the Quatuor Danel and Quatuor Ysaÿe in Europe, Cong Quartet's journey was fueled by top prize wins at the likes of 2024 International Music Competition Triomphe de l'Art in Brussels, 2022 Virtuoso & Belcanto's Chamber Music Competition in Italy, and several other international chamber music competitions. The quartet has participated in many chamber music festivals & institutes, such as the Accademia Internazionale di Musica di Cagliari, Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, Robert Mann String Quartet Institute, Heifetz International Music Institute, Encore Chamber Music, the Harpa International Music Academy, Madeline Island Chamber Music, Music in PyeongChang, the Ozawa International  Chamber Music Academy, as well as the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) and Musethica. They have performed with world-renowned artists such as the Borromeo Quartet, Quatuor Danel, Yovan Markovitch, Enrico Pace & Yuri Bashmet among many others.

Cong Quartet believes that the humanistic experience of chamber music is a treasure to the community and shares the philosophy of promoting chamber repertoire from their cultural background.