The Sinfonietta Sensation Quartet

璀燦鋼琴四重奏

The Sinfonietta Sensation Quartet was formed by pianists Quei Lih Chen, Ting Wen Shao, Nam Yeung and Frank Hsieh .This dynamic group was launched in 2012, giving its debut at the Seoul Arts Center in Korea, and since then has become one of Taiwan’s most active piano ensembles.

All four pianists of the group are established solo artists in their own right, they individually having been guest artists in music festival in Taiwan, China, Korea, South Asia and United States and each having earned Doctorate degrees from prestigious music schools, including Peabody and USC.

The group has a special interest in the performance of orchestral works transcribed or arranged for piano en¬sembles. On July 12, 7:30 PM at the Herbert Zipper Hall in the Colburn School, Sinfonietta Sensation will pres¬ent three major works originally written for orchestra: Brahms Academic Overture, Beethoven Fifth Symphony, Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, each transcribed by Keller, Kirchner, Landger, and Bizet’s Carmen Fantasy, arranged by Mack Wilberg for 8 hands, two pianos.

「璀燦鋼琴四重奏」是由陳瑰麗、邵婷雯、謝明志及楊楠四位教授於2012年所組成。他們皆在美國接受完整的專業演奏訓練，獲得音樂學士、音樂碩士及音樂藝術博士等學位之外，個人也曾多次獲得國際大賽獎項肯定。

2012年時他們在南韓首爾藝術中心首次合作演出，大獲國際肯定與好評。6/9在台南國際藝術節城市舞台系列這四位好友再次攜手合作4B作曲家,獲得很大的迴響。這次受邀到洛杉機,將演出柴可夫斯基、貝多芬、布拉姆斯及比才八手聯彈的傑作。此音樂會主軸是架構堅強的德意志風樂曲，外加光輝燦爛的1812序曲和奔放炫麗的卡門幻想曲。