12 Nov (Wed) - 15 Nov (Sat)
The Academy brings you again the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS), featuring some of the world’s finest musicians. This year, the CMS will present across three concerts works for clarinet, horn, piano and strings, including Mozart, Brahms, Schumann, Beethoven, Martinů, Françaix, Fibich, Bruch and Dohnányi. These programmes are open to all members of the Academy and the public.
Since its establishment in 1969, the CMS has performed to more people than any other organizations of its kind. Under the leadership of cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, its roster of 140 musicians enables the group to present chamber music repertoire from all historical periods.
Lincoln Center Chamber Music Series
Program Details:
8:00pm Wednesday, 12 November 2025
This programme features Mozart’s “Kegelstatt” K. 498, Brahms’s Horn Trio op. 40 and Schumann’s Piano Quartet op.47. You will be mesmerised by the intensity and the romance of chamber music at its most elegant.
8:00pm Friday, 14 November 2025
This programme brings you the Hong Kong premiere of Zdeněk Fibich’s Quintet in D major, op. 42, together with Beethoven’s Horn sonata op. 17, Martinů’s Three Madrigals for violin and viola, and Françaix’s String Trio. Diversity and dynamism are guaranteed.
8:00pm Saturday, 15 November 2025
CMS’s final programme of the year will feature Beethoven’s String Trio op. 9 no. 3, selections from Bruch’s op. 83, and the dazzling Sextet, op.37, for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Clarinet and Horn. Enjoy the poetry, intimacy and virtuosity of the CMS players.
Artists:
Co-Artistic Directors DAVID FINCKEL (Cello) and WU HAN (Piano)
"Mr. Finckel and Wu Han gave eloquent and deeply committed performances. He played with a deep and burnished tone and she with a sparkling virtuosity. Best of all was how keenly they listened to each other."
- The New York Times
TOMMASO LONQUICH, Clarinet
Italian clarinettist Tommaso Lonquich has enjoyed a distinguished international career, performing on the most prestigious stages of four continents. Praised by reviewers for his “passion, sumptuous tone, magical finesse, and dazzling virtuosity,” he is Solo Clarinettist with Ensemble MidtVest, the acclaimed chamber ensemble based in Denmark. Lonquich can be heard on more than twenty albums and is an alum of CMS’s Bowers Programme.
RADOVAN VLATKOVIĆ, Horn
Radovan Vlatković has performed extensively around the globe and popularised the horn as a recording artist and teacher. He is the winner of numerous competitions, including the Premio Ancona in 1979 and the ARD Competition in 1983. He has premiered works by Elliott Carter, Sofia Gubaidulina, Heinz Holliger and several Croatian composers. He premiered Penderecki’s horn concerto, Winterreise, in Bremen, Germany, in 2008 with the composer as conductor.
KRISTIN LEE, Violin
Kristin Lee is a violinist of remarkable versatility and impeccable technique who has enjoyed a vibrant career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, and artistic director. Her honors include an Avery Fisher Career Grant, top prizes in the Walter W. Naumburg Competition and the Astral Artists National Auditions, and awards from the Trondheim Chamber Music Competition, the Trio di Trieste Premio International Competition, the SYLFF Fellowship, the Dorothy DeLay Scholarship, the Aspen Music Festival’s Violin Competition, the New Jersey Young Artists’ Competition, and the Salon de Virtuosi Scholarship Foundation.
MILENA PÁJARO-VAN DE STADT, Viola
Violist Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt has established herself as one of the most sought-after violists of her generation. She was the founding violist of the Dover Quartet and, played in the group from 2008 to 2022. Her numerous awards include first prize in the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and top prizes at the Sphinx Competition and the Tokyo International Viola Competition.
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