Shanghai Quartet

The Freer and Sackler Galleries together form the National Museum of Asian Art at the Smithsonian.

National Museum of Asian Art

Enjoy the enchanting “Chinese Folk Songs” by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long, plus quartets by Haydn and Smetana.

<h2>Shanghai Quartet</h2><h2>Saturday, February 13, 7:30 pm</h2>A YouTube Premiere eventYou will receive a link to the event before the concert date.During Chinese New Year, enjoy the enchanting “Chinese Folk Songs” by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long. His high-spirited arrangements of traditional music from across China will be performed by the eminent Shanghai Quartet, a cherished staple in the Freer and Sackler’s concert series for twenty-seven years. The quartet will record this concert specially for the museum at the Tianjin Juilliard School in China’s fourth-largest city, where the musicians in the quartet became resident faculty members in fall 2020. The quartet just welcomed its new second violinist, Angelo Xiang Yu, winner of both a 2019 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2019 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award. He also earned first prize in the 2010 Yehudi Menuhin Competition. Along with Zhou Long’s “Eight Folk Songs,” the Shanghai Quartet performs another folk music-inflected work, the autobiographical Quartet no. 1 (“From My Life”) by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, as well as Joseph Haydn’s lively Quartet in G Minor, op. 74, no. 3 (“Rider”).This program is part of Lunar New Year DC, organized by the Freer and Sackler Galleries and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and is part of the 28th season of the Bill and Mary Meyer Concert Series.Photo credit: Sophie Zhai

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