Photo by Titilayo Ayangade
Composer Vivian Fung talks about her new concerto for violin and percussion, Goddess/Insect, which she wrote for violinist Kristin Lee and Sandbox Percussion.
“Ominous functioned as a generous gallery exhibition of its composer’s panoply of talents. Accumulating acoustic mass, it attained a tangible though ragged pulse, here with smoky, twirling ascending melody lines, there with fortissimo neural bursts. The figuration was often fascinating, and there was a lively, lovely interlude for strings.”
Chamber Music America: 2025 Album of the Year
Released in October 2023, The Jasper String Quartet’s Insects and Machines: Quartets of Vivian Fung will receive the Album of the Year Award…Insects and Machines is Jasper Quartet’s eighth album and the first commercial release of Fung’s first four quartets. It received notable critical acclaim, including from Strings Magazine that praised the album for its “intensely dramatic energy… demonstrating both their advocacy of new music and their transcendent mastery.”
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