We’re broadcasting LIVE from Brunswick, Maine, for a special concert presented by the Bowdoin International Music Festival, featuring renowned pianist Jon Nakamatsu and members of the Ying Quartet.
Jon Nakamatsu, the Gold Medalist of the 1997 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, has been a guest soloist with over 150 orchestras worldwide, including those in Baltimore, Berlin, Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Florence, Los Angeles, Milan, San Francisco, Seattle, Tokyo, and Vancouver. He has collaborated with esteemed conductors such as Marin Alsop, Sergiu Comissiona, James Conlon, Philippe Entremont, Hans Graf, Marek Janowski, Raymond Leppard, Gerard Schwarz, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Osmo Vänskä.
The Ying Quartet, consisting of violinists Robin Scott and Janet Ying, violist Phillip Ying, and cellist David Ying, first gained professional prominence in the early 1990s as the resident quartet of Jesup, Iowa, a farm town of 2,000 people. They performed in diverse settings, from homes and schools to churches and banks, making music an integral part of community life. As the quartet-in-residence at the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, the Ying Quartet teaches in the string department and leads a rigorous, sequentially designed chamber music program.
Founded in 1964, the Bowdoin International Music Festival engages exceptional students and enthusiastic audiences through world-class education and performances. Each summer, 250 students from more than 20 countries and nearly every state attend the festival to study with distinguished faculty and guest artists.
