Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Presents: Quan Ge, violin; Cong Wu, viola; Nathan Vickery,cello; Yinfei Wang, piano

Artist(s)

Quan Ge 戈荃, violin:  https://www.nyphil.org/about-us/artists/quan-ge

Violinist Quan Ge joined the New York Philharmonic in June 2009. She is a top prize winner at the China National Violin Competition and Jeunesses International Music Competition in Romania, and has served as guest concertmaster with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

An avid chamber musician, Ge is a regular performer at the New York Philharmonic Ensembles series at Merkin Hall, and has appeared at SubCulture, National Sawdust, the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, Taos School of Music, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, New York String Orchestra Seminar, and Encore School for Strings.
Born in Huainan, China, Ge went to Shanghai Conservatory of Music before coming to the United States. She received her bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and a master’s degree from The Juilliard School. Her teachers include Lei Fang, Ida Kavafian, Pamela Frank, Jaime Laredo, Yumi Scott, and David Chan.

Cong Wu 吳聰, viola: https://www.nyphil.org/about-us/artists/cong-wu

Cong Wu joined the New York Philharmonic as Assistant Principal Viola in September 2018. He is the winner of the Third Prize and the Chamber Music Prize in the Fourteenth Primrose International Viola Competition, and the Special Prize in the Twelfth Tertis International Viola Competition. His performances throughout North America and Asia include solo appearances with the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, New York Classical Players, and the Long Island Concert Orchestra.

An avid chamber musician, Wu has collaborated with renowned artists such as Christoph Eschenbach, David Finckel, Hilary Hahn, Itzhak Perlman, Peter Wiley, Pinchas Zukerman, the American String Quartet, and many New York Philharmonic musicians. His festival engagements have included the Marlboro Music Festival, the Perlman Music Program, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Encounters, Music@Menlo, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Chestnut Hill Concerts, the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany. He also appears regularly with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and New York Classical Players.

Passionate about teaching, Wu is on the viola faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and Mannes School of Music, and has taught at the Shanghai Orchestra Academy. He formerly served on the faculties of SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Music and the National Arts Centre Summer Music Institute in Canada. He has been invited to give masterclasses at the Mead Witter School of Music (University of Wisconsin-Madison), China Conservatory of Music, and Hong Kong Baptist University.

Born in Jinan, China, Cong (pronounced “Ts’ong”) Wu moved to New York in 2010 after graduating from the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music. He holds a master’s degree from The Juilliard School and a doctoral degree with the Helen Cohn Award from the Manhattan School of Music. His teachers have included Wing Ho, Heidi Castleman, Hsin-Yun Huang, Patinka Kopec, and Pinchas Zukerman.

Nathan Vickery, cello: https://www.nyphil.org/about-us/artists/nathan-vickery

Lauded as a “formidable cello soloist” (The New York Times), cellist Nathan Vickery appears regularly in solo and chamber music recitals and at music festivals around the country. In a 2016 performance of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, he was celebrated for his “talent and artistry” and his “fresh and appealing account” of the work (The New York Times).

Vickery joined the New York Philharmonic in September 2013 as its youngest member, and has since performed and toured with the Orchestra at home in New York and throughout the world. He also appears frequently in the New York Philharmonic Ensembles chamber music series at Merkin Hall, and in the NY Phil’s new-music series.

Nathan Vickery is a member of the Rosamunde String Quartet, in which he joins with violinists Noah Bendix-Balgley and Shanshan Yao and violist Teng Li. He has appeared as a soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and as a recitalist and chamber musician at festivals including the Marlboro Chamber Music Festival, Summer Music at Indiana University, and the Steans Music Institute at Ravinia. He has served on the faculty of the Indiana University Summer String Academy, teaches privately in New York City and with the Shanghai Orchestra Academy, the New York Philharmonic’s professional training partnership with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and enjoys presenting masterclasses.

Vickery received his bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, under the tutelage of Peter Wiley. His pre-college studies were with Susan Moses at the Indiana University String Academy.

Yinfei Wang 王寅飛 , piano: https://www.wangyinfei.com/

Pianist Yinfei Wang made his first public appearance at the age of seven in the Shanghai Concert Hall. Since then, he has performed throughout China, Singapore, Spain, Australia and the United States. He has been a prizewinner of many national and international piano competitions, including Washington International Piano Competition, Gershwin International Piano Competition, Five Towns Piano Competition, Jacob Flier Piano Competition, Chopin Piano Competition in Connecticut and many others. As a soloist, Mr. Wang has performed with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, the MSM Symphony Orchestra, with conductors Vladimir Feltsman, Phillipe Entremont, among others.

An avid chamber musician, Mr. Wang has performed in many music festivals and concert series, including The Perlman Music Program, PianoSummer at New Paltz, Summer Concerts at NEC in Boston, Walnut Hill Music Festival, the Concerts on the Slope series in New York, and many others. He has collaborated with many musicians such as Thomas Hill, Nai-Yuan Hu, Hsin-Yun Huang, Nicholas Kitchen, Qianqian Li, Li Lao, Mo Mo, Kenneth Radnofsky, Nathan Vickery and Cong Wu.

Mr. Wang received his Bachelor’s degree from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, his Master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music. His Principle teachers include Phillip Kawin, Yanxin Chen, Christopher Zhong and Chongfang Zhang.