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 works for clarinet, horn, piano and strings, including Mozart, Brahms, Schumann, Beethoven, Martinů, Françaix, Fibich, Bruch and Dohnányi to warrant the exciting musical journey in three concerts. These programs are open to all members of the Academy and the public.
Founded in 1969, the CMS shared great performances to more audience than any other organizations of its kind internationally. Under the leadership of cellist David Finckel and pianist WU Han, their performing artist roster of 140 musicians enabled the organization to present chamber music repertoire across all historical periods.
Lincoln Center Chamber Music Series
Program Details:
8:00pm Wednesday, 12 November 2025
This program features three masterworks from Mozart’s “Kegelstatt” K. 498, Brahms’s Horn Trio op. 40 to Schumann’s Piano Quartet op.47. You will undoubtedly mesmerise the elegance, intensity and the romance of chamber music to the fullest uniqueness.
8:00pm Friday, 14 November 2025
This program brings you the Hong Kong premiere of Zdeněk Fibich’s Quintet in D major, op. 42 together with Beethoven’s op. 17 Horn sonata, Martinus’s “Three Madrigals” for violin and viola and Françaix’s String Trio. It guarantees everyone the diversity and dynamic expressions.
8:00pm Saturday, 15 November 2025
CMS musicians will showcase their final program of this year with Beethoven’s String Trio op. 9 no. 3, selections from Bruch’s op. 83, and the dazzling Sextet op.37 by Dohnányi which was composed for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Clarinet and Horn. The virtuosic CMS musicians will share you the poetic intimacy and symphonic emotions in this concert to conclude their concert tour of Hong Kong.
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 enjoys a distinguished international career, having performed 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 Program.
RADOVAN VLATKOVIĆ, Horn
Radovan Vlatković has performed extensively around the globe and popularized 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 enjoys 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 also include first prize of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and top prizes at the Sphinx Competition and Tokyo International Viola Competition.