Shanghai Quartet

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The Shanghai Quartet is a well-known string quartet. Originally formed in Shanghai, this versatile ensemble is known for their musicality, technique, and multicultural innovations.

Since its founding at the Shanghai Conservatory in 1983, the Shanghai Quartet has amassed a long list of performance collaborators including Yo-Yo Ma, David Soyer, Eugenia Zukerman, Sharon Isbin, Ruth Laredo, and Arnold Steinhardt. Their teaching involvements now include serving as the Quartet-in-Residence at Montclair State University, where they teach chamber music and offer individual lessons. Their activities also involve an annual residency at the Shanghai Conservatory in China. In the 1990s, they were the Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia.

[edit] Discography

Recording for Delos International, the Shanghai Quartet has built an extensive discography. In November of 2002, a 24-track collection of Chinese folk songs, titled ChinaSong, was released in the U.S., featuring music arranged by Yi-Wen Jiang from his childhood memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In 2005 a new recording of music by Bright Sheng was released on the Bis label, titled Silent Temple.

Dvorák: String Quartet no. 12 and Mendelssohn: String Octet (with Bartók Quartet (Camerata)
Melinda and Melinda Soundtrack (Woody Allen Movie)
Beethoven: The Razumovsky Quartets (Delos )
Chinasong (Delos)
Silent Temple (Bis )
Ravel and Bridge Quartets (Delos)
Brahms Piano Quartets with Ruth Laredo
Mozart's Last Two Quartets
The Shanghai Quartet Plays Brahms with Arnold Steinhardt
The Flowing Stream with Min Xiao-Fen (Delos )