Pressreader: Powerful music played out on the smallest of stages
“After the 18th century Haydn came the 21st century Vivian Fung, a compower who epitomises cultural diversity. She’s a Canadian living in the USA whose music is deeply rooted in non-western musical traditions, particularly Chinese and Indonesian folk music.
Her String Quartet No 1 is extraordinary when experienced live, especially its pizzicato third movement, in which not only are the strings plucked throughout but where all sorts of other unexpected things happen too, such as fingers tapping and knuckles rapping the instruments.”