Grammy winners Parker Quartet to perform in Stockton
With beautiful tone color and thoughtful accuracy to their performance, Parker Quartet will offer a remarkable concert in their upcoming performance on Sunday.
Hailed by the New York Times as “something extraordinary” and by the Boston Globe for their “virtuosic, utterly assured ... assiduously cultivated blend of sound,” the award-winning Parker Quartet has distinguished itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation.
Performing together since 2002, the Parker Quartet trained at the New England Conservatory of Music and is one of the best chamber music quartets performing today.
Daniel Chong and Ying Xue on violin, Jessica Bodner playing viola and cellist Kee-Hyun Kim are based in Boston. Previously, they have held teaching and performance residencies at the University of South Carolina and the University of St. Thomas.
From 2008 to 2013, the quartet spent much of its time in St. Paul, Minnesota, where they served as quartet-in-residence with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra from 2008 to 2010 and were the firstever artists-in-residence with Minnesota Public Radio, from 2009 to 2010.
The Parker Quartet began their residency at Harvard in the fall of 2014.
With an international reputation, the Parker Quartet began touring after winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France.
Chamber Music America awarded the quartet the prestigious biennial Cleveland Quartet Award for the 2009 and 2011 seasons.
The Parker Quartet is presented by Stockton’s Friends of Chamber Music. The public is invited to come and enjoy the concert, and to meet the musicians at a reception following the performance.
Friends of Chamber Music concerts are presented in cooperation with Pacific and its Conservatory of Music.