The Ying Quartet Wins a Grammy Award

The Ying Quartet, the Eastman School of Music’s string quartet-in-residence, won a Grammy Award February 8 in the Best Classical Crossover Album category for 4 + Four, a collaborative project with the Turtle Island String Quartet. (Buy this CD.) Natives of Chicago, the Ying siblings (David, Janet, Phillip, and Timothy) have performed together for more than two decades. The group works to develop ways of making artistic and creative expression an essential part of everyday life through projects such as a visiting residency at Symphony Space in New York City, linking music with poetry, and a venture with Da Camera of Houston to bring chamber music into the lives of Houston working people.

More than a dozen other Eastman School faculty, students, and alumni performed on albums that were nominated for awards, including Paul O'Dette, Eastman professor, world-renowned lutenist, and previous Grammy winner for conducting Conradi’s Ariadne with Eastman doctoral student Kristian Bezuidenhout performing harpsichord continuo. For more details on the nominies, visit www.esm.rochester.edu/news/?id=271.