They say a week in politics can be a long time, but try 10 years in chamber music.
No one can appreciate the magnitude of that commitment more than Hong Kong’s foremost string quartet, the Cong Quartet, as they reflect on a decade of challenges, member changes and the well-earned awards along the way.
The quartet’s name is a combination of the founding members’ last names and a play on the fact that the players grew up in Hong Kong, where they made music together during their teenage years.
Marking the anniversary of the quartet’s inception back at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in 2015, today’s members – violinists Francis Chik Yiu-ting and Fan Hiu-sing, violist Caleb Wong and cellist Cheng Yan-ho – celebrated the milestone with a concert at Hong Kong City Hall on September 7.
