Tune in on June 24 at 7:30 PM (ET) for a program of works by Haydn, Bartok, and Dvorak

We’re coming to you LIVE from Brunswick, Maine, for the opening concert of the 60th season of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, featuring the Ying Quartet with Soyeon Kate Lee.

The Ying Quartet - comprising of violinists Robin Scott, Janet Ying, violist Phillip Ying, and cellist David Ying - first came to professional prominence in the early 1990s during their years as resident quartet of Jesup, Iowa, a farm town of 2000 people. Playing before audiences of six to six hundred in homes, schools, churches, and banks, the Quartet had its first opportunities to enable music and creative endeavor to become an integral part of community life. As quartet-in-residence at the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, the Ying Quartet teaches in the string department and leads a rigorous, sequentially designed chamber music program.

The festival was founded in 1964 and engages exceptional students and enthusiastic audiences through world-class education and performances. Each summer, 250 students from more than 20 countries and nearly every state attend the festival to study with distinguished faculty and guest artists.