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They put on such a breathtaking performance that at the end the audience trampled with enthusiasm.” Hamburger Abendblatt

Experience the breathtaking charm of string quartet music with the Simply Quartet at JC Cube, Tai Kwun. 

The Simply Quartet is one of the most promising string quartets of the new generation and is composed of musicians from three different nations: China, Norway and Austria. As a young, international ensemble, they have already acquired a great reputation within the chamber music scene, having been awarded first prizes at the International Carl Nielsen Competition and the ‘Quatuor á Bordeaux’ in 2019, the ‘Franz Schubert and the Music of Modernity’ in Graz in 2018 and at the International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in 2017. They were also the selected ensemble of the ECHO Rising Stars series in 2021/22, resulting in debuts in some of the most important concert halls in Europe. Originally founded in Shanghai under the auspices of Jensen Horn-Sin Lam, the quartet moved to Vienna to intensively explore the essence and origins of quartet playing.

The programme features Smetana’s deeply personal String Quartet No. 1 “From My Life” and opens with Emilie Mayer’s expressive String Quartet in G minor (composed in the 1840s). Known as the “female Beethoven,” Emilie Mayer was the most prolific female composer of the Romantic Era, whose works fell into obscurity after her death in 1883.  

Instruments Featured in this Concert

Danfeng Shen’s Violin
1753 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin

Antonia Rankersberger’s Violin
1776 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Turin, “ex Beare – ex Tetzlaff”violin

Ivan Valentin Hollup Roald’s Cello
1801 Giovanni Battista Ceruti cello

Xiang Lyu’s Viola
2010 Edgar Russ viola