Broadway World: Jasper String Quartet Performs The Music of Vivian Fung at Americas Society/Council Of The Americas
The Jasper String Quartet will perform the music of JUNO Award-winning composer Vivian Fung on Monday, October 16, 2023 at 7pm, presented by the Americas Society/Council of the Americas (680 Park Avenue). Admission is free, but registration is required. The concert celebrates the release of Insects and Machines, the Jasper's new album featuring Fung's String Quartets Nos. 1-4. The concert program interweaves selections from Vivian Fung's String Quartets Nos. 1, 2, and 4 with selections from Alfred Schnittke's String Quartet No. 3 and Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 5 – two composers that strongly influenced her string quartet writing. The Quartet will also perform an excerpt from a new work addressing climate change that Fung is composing for them, tenor Nicholas Phan, and pianist Myra Huang, which will be premiered on May 30, 2024 at the Kaufman Music Center in New York. The new work centers around poet Claire Wahmanholm's prize-winning poem “O,” which took second place at the Academy of American Poets' inaugural Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize.