Back by popular demand! Listen to 2023 FWC Small Ensemble winner Kodak String Quartet — Edgar Donati, Violin; Martin Noh, Violin; Daniel Spink, Viola; Blake Kitayama, Cello — perform on Seattle’s premier classical music station.
Classical KING and Ladies Musical Club
present
KODAK QUARTET
on Northwest Focus Live
Friday, November 15, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Program TBA
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As featured on NPR’s Live Sessions
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Praised for their “electrifying eye contact and rhythmic flexibility” (Sean MacLean, KING FM), the award-winning Kodak Quartet is highly regarded for their work with contemporary composers on new compositions and for presenting traditional works with a contemporary flavor. Kodak Quartet formed in Rochester, New York while attending the Eastman School of
Music and are currently based in New York, NY. Kodak’s members hail from the US, Canada and France.
The quartet won the first prize at the 2023 Frances Walton Competition, and was honored with first prize and grand prize at the 2023 Coltman Chamber Music Competition. Their international performance career brings concerts to a great diversity of people, including concerts at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, the Banff Centre, and MISQA. They have appeared on KING-FM Classical Northwest and have been featured on NPR Live Sessions. They have also performed for thousands of children at non-traditional performance venues such as school concerts, movie theaters, concert halls, and other outreach programs such as Rob Kapilow’s “What Makes it Great?” and James Blachly’s “Listening as Leadership.”
Kodak Quartet has performed with GRAMMY-winning artists Time for Three, Kronos Quartet, and JACK Quartet. They have worked with members of the Alban Berg, American, Beethoven, Danel, Juilliard, Pacifica, Verona, and Ying Quartets, among others. The Kodak Quartet is currently the Cuker and Stern Resident String Quartet at the Mannes School of Music.
The Frances Walton Competition and LMC are generously supported by:
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Zhengyi Huang is from Shenzhen, China. He earned his two Master of Music degrees in piano performance and in Chamber Music with Professor Logan Skelton at the University of Michigan, under a full-tuition scholarship. He is currently the only piano candidate of the prestigious Artist Diploma program at Rice University studying with Professor Jon Kimura Parker.