Awards & PressAwards The Quartet’s performances have garnered many international awards. They were prizewinners at the 2nd Internationaler Joseph Joachim Kammermusikwettbewerb in Weimar, Germany in 1999, receiving in addition the Special Jury Prize for best interpretation of a contemporary composition. The same year saw the Quartet being awarded a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts grant from the US Government to be a resident ensemble in a special programme of Chamber Music America. In 2000, T’ang Quartet was awarded the Bartok prize in Austria by the Prague-Vienna-Budapest Sommer Akademie and presented with the Cultural Award by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Singapore. In 2008, T’ang Quartet received the Artistic Excellence Award (Classical) by Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (COMPASS). Press "...to its ironic and final soothing figurations, the audience was kept transfixed"~ The Straits Times, March 2009 "...flashes of inspired synchronicity that fired the senses into overdrive, even euphoria." ~ The Scotsman, Aug 2007 "...an adventurous programme that excited the ears...compelling connection with the musicians…" ~ The Straits Times, June 2007 "The T’ang Quartet’s rhythmic delivery was exceptionally tight and sharp...their command of timbre and internal balance seemed ideal...making the music sound as fresh as it had been written yesterday...” ~ The Irish Times, Jul 2006 "...a fine-toned, well-balanced, thoughtfully blended ensemble without a weak link and with an excellent sense of style..." ~ The Strad, UK June 2005 "...undeniable enthusiasm, energy and commitment..." ~ The Times, London, March 2005 "...the four musicians breathe and sing as a single musical organism, their technique is beyond criticism, balance is perfect..." ~ the Strad on the debut cd- The Art of War "...a lively and excellent young ensemble..." ~ The Spectator, December 2004 "...played by the astounding T’ang Quartet...with such confidence, bravura and charisma that they won the largest ovation of the Tanglewood Festival…" ~ Boston Globe, July 2002 "...Quartet plays with zing of confidence...a smooth sheen to the sound...this quartet is its own master and commands that organic unity” ~ The Australian, April 2001 "...the T’ang Quartet brought more emotion and a greater sense of risk to its program that ultimately left me more exhilarated...the T’ang is blessed with an incisive point of view" ~ Detroit Free Press, Feb 2000 |