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A member of Sirius String Quartet, Fung Chern Hwei has been freelancing in
the City ever since he completed his graduate studies under Daniel Phillips
in Aaron Copland School of Music, CUNY Queens College. Grew up in a
culturally diverse country, Malaysia, Chern Hwei is easily adapted to
various kinds of music, other than classical music. With a keen interest to
perform and create new music, he world-premiered 6 compositions by young
composers Mikael Karlsson, Zhou Tian, Jordan Kuspa, Tsai-Yun Huang, Adeline
Wong and himself. As a frequent collaborator of Mikael Karlsson's, he also
did a few first recordings of his compositions, one of the most recent one
being Desperate Contract for violin and piano.
From John Adams to John Zorn, violist Ron Lawrence has performed and recorded with many of new music's most exciting personalities. A founding member of the Sirius String Quartet, he has also performed extensively with Cuartetango, Quartet Indigo, the Soldier String Quartet and the Orchestra of St. Lukes. Other collaborators include Anthony Braxton, John Blake, Bob Beldon, Anthony Davis, Regina Carter, Elliot Sharp, James Blood Ulmer, Cassandra Wilson, John Cale, and Eumir Deodato. Further uptown, he has recorded with Kathleen Battle, Robert Craft, Jonh Cage, and Andre Previn. One of Ron's most exciting projects was a journey to Alaska to record John Luther Adams’ multi-media spectacular, Earth and the Great Weather --A Sonic Geography of the Arctic. Despite a rigorous performance schedule, he was able to break away each evening to cross-country ski under the Northern Lights.
Violinist Esther Noh has been a featured artist at the Smithsonian Museum and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She has performed in New York City at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Recital Hall, and Miller Theater. She has also presented avant-garde music at Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette, The Jazz Standard, and the Cutting Room. She has premiered numerous contemporary composers’ works and plays and records with singer/songwriters. Ms. Noh received degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Michigan. She holds a doctorate with honors from SUNY Stony Brook.
Dave Eggar has performed throughout the world as a classical and contemporary pianist, cellist and composer including solo appearances in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center (Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, New York State Theater), the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, the Barbican Center Concert Hall in London, The Paris Opera, The Aspen music Festival, Shinjuku Park Tower Hall in Tokyo, and many others. A champion of many styles of music, Mr. Eggar has performed and recorded with artists and projects such as The Who, Kathleen Battle, Sinead O'Connor, John Denver, Ornette Coleman, Bobby McFerrin, Yo-Yo Ma, the New York City Ballet, Aspen Chamber Symphony, the Jose Limon Dance Company, the British Rock Orchestra, Pearl Jam, James Galway, and Leonard Slatkin. A graduate of the Juilliard School and Harvard University, Mr. Eggar has received grants for his compositional and improvisational work from the National Endowment for the Arts, ASCAP, The Leonard Bernstein Foundation, Meet the Composer, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Arts Midwest, Time Magazine, Harvard University, and the Geraldine Dodge Foundation. A founding member of the Flux quartet, Mr. Eggar has premiered works by eminent contemporary composers such as John Cage, Frank Zappa, Charles Ives, Toshiro Mayazumi, Augusta Read Thomas, Deborah Drattell, John Zorn, Ornette Coleman, and has worked closely with Milton Babbit on his compositions. Mr. Eggar has served on the faculty of NYU, the Juilliard Pre-College Division, and the Bowdoin Music Festival. He was awarded the 1997 SONY records award for excellence in the area of classical music.
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From John Adams to John Zorn, violist Ron Lawrence has performed and recorded with many of new music's most exciting personalities. A founding member of the Sirius String Quartet, he has also performed extensively with Cuartetango, Quartet Indigo, the Soldier String Quartet and the Orchestra of St. Lukes. Other collaborators include Anthony Braxton, John Blake, Bob Beldon, Anthony Davis, Regina Carter, Elliot Sharp, James Blood Ulmer, Cassandra Wilson, John Cale, and Eumir Deodato. Further uptown, he has recorded with Kathleen Battle, Robert Craft, Jonh Cage, and Andre Previn. One of Ron's most exciting projects was a journey to Alaska to record John Luther Adams’ multi-media spectacular, Earth and the Great Weather --A Sonic Geography of the Arctic. Despite a rigorous performance schedule, he was able to break away each evening to cross-country ski under the Northern Lights.
Violinist Esther Noh has been a featured artist at the Smithsonian Museum and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She has performed in New York City at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Recital Hall, and Miller Theater. She has also presented avant-garde music at Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette, The Jazz Standard, and the Cutting Room. She has premiered numerous contemporary composers’ works and plays and records with singer/songwriters. Ms. Noh received degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Michigan. She holds a doctorate with honors from SUNY Stony Brook.
Dave Eggar has performed throughout the world as a classical and contemporary pianist, cellist and composer including solo appearances in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center (Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, New York State Theater), the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, the Barbican Center Concert Hall in London, The Paris Opera, The Aspen music Festival, Shinjuku Park Tower Hall in Tokyo, and many others. A champion of many styles of music, Mr. Eggar has performed and recorded with artists and projects such as The Who, Kathleen Battle, Sinead O'Connor, John Denver, Ornette Coleman, Bobby McFerrin, Yo-Yo Ma, the New York City Ballet, Aspen Chamber Symphony, the Jose Limon Dance Company, the British Rock Orchestra, Pearl Jam, James Galway, and Leonard Slatkin. A graduate of the Juilliard School and Harvard University, Mr. Eggar has received grants for his compositional and improvisational work from the National Endowment for the Arts, ASCAP, The Leonard Bernstein Foundation, Meet the Composer, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Arts Midwest, Time Magazine, Harvard University, and the Geraldine Dodge Foundation. A founding member of the Flux quartet, Mr. Eggar has premiered works by eminent contemporary composers such as John Cage, Frank Zappa, Charles Ives, Toshiro Mayazumi, Augusta Read Thomas, Deborah Drattell, John Zorn, Ornette Coleman, and has worked closely with Milton Babbit on his compositions. Mr. Eggar has served on the faculty of NYU, the Juilliard Pre-College Division, and the Bowdoin Music Festival. He was awarded the 1997 SONY records award for excellence in the area of classical music.