It's been an incredible three days at @salisburyuniversity with the @salisburysymphonyorchestra and @lilawildy working with talented highschool students of the Salisbury Youth Orchestra and rehearsing and performing Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1 as well as the world premiere of Lila Wildy Quillin's Violin Concerto "Suspension Bridge" - a astoundingly imaginative work that is inspired by the contrapuntal experience of seeing lines emerge and intersect as one crosses a bridge.
Thank you to Dr. Jeff Schoyen and Dr. Sachi Murasugi for inviting Lila and me to come to SU for this very special anniversary concert of the SSO!
Now back to my wonderful quartet life and a concert tomorrow in Reno, Nevada!
Excited to come to Salisbury, Maryland, next Saturday to join the @salisburysymphonyorchestra for a performance of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1 as well as @lilawildy 's premiere for violin and orchestra "Suspension Bridge"! Link for tickets in bio!
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It's a wrap! 5 concerts across Germany, Austria, and Greece and a week of recording in beautiful Pescara, Italy, the JSQ is returning home to NYC for our Alice Tully Hall Concert tomorrow, April 30, at 7:30 pm. Thank you to everyone who made this tour possible and we can't wait to share the fruits of our labor with you!
Special thanks to @john_odradek , Shin, and Tommo at @odradekrecords for your incredible hospitality, our managers @hamplandrea and @philipkrippendorff (@for.artists.berlin ) for enabling a smooth and successful tour and @boulezsaal , Gewandhaus Leipzig, @musikverein.wien , and @megaron_athens for having us in your incredible concert halls. Also, insurmountable thanks to our amazing sound engineer, Leonie Wagner, for being with us for four long days of recording, lending your expertise, artistry, craft, and ear to collaborate on this most exciting recording project. Last but not least, an enormous heartfelt thank you to the one and only @lamichellle for gifting us with a transcendental work of music, "Birds on the Moon", which will be prominently featured in tomorrow's Alice Tully Hall Concert!
Dress rehearsal in the prestigious Mendelssohn-Saal at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, on our Europe tour, rehearsing for tonight's concert featuring Beethoven's great op. 130 quartet and two quartets by Jรถrg Widmann!
We are beyond excited to welcome violinist Leonard Fu to lead a masterclass at OMI on July 29, 2026! โจ
Leonard Fu has established a diverse and distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster, pedagogue, and composer. He has performed across Europe, North America, and Asia in venues including the Elbphilharmonie, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Het Concertgebouw, and Alice Tully Hall.
As a soloist, Fu has appeared with orchestras such as the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and Frankfurt Radio Symphony under conductors including Andrew Manze and Alexander Shelley, and has served as guest concertmaster with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
Fu recently joined the Juilliard String Quartet as second violinist, performing extensively across the US, Asia, and Europe. His chamber music collaborators include Mitsuko Uchida, Janine Jansen, Kim Kashkashian, and Jรถrg Widmann, among others.
As a composer, Fu performs his own works and accepts commissions. In December 2025, the Juilliard String Quartet premiered his Popular Dances for string quartet at Alice Tully Hall.
A laureate of the Joseph Joachim, Lipizer, and Postacchini competitions, Fu has been praised for his โsuperior awareness for sound and structure.โ He holds degrees from New England Conservatory and the Juilliard School, where he studied with Donald Weilerstein and Catherine Cho, and pursued further studies with Antje Weithaas at the Kronberg Academy. After serving as teaching assistant to Donald Weilerstein and Catherine Cho for several years, he joined the Juilliard faculty in Fall 2025, teaching violin and chamber music across the College and Pre-College Divisions.
Fu performs on a โLorenzo Storioni, Cremona, 1781โ, generously loaned from the
instruments fund of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
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The JSQ is coming to Tuckamore! Join us for a performance at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's with music by Shostakovich, Bach, @lamichellle , and Beethoven. @tuckamoremusicfestival
Link in Bio!
Big thank you to @peoplessymphony for the performance footage and @abigelkralik for the photo.
Happy 100th birthday to Gyลrgy Kurtรกg! One of the most profound and influential composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, we are very lucky to have several works of his written for string quartet. The brevity of his movements can be described as musical poetry, aphoristic and concise in nature. Here's the first movement of his latest string quartet: "6 Moments Musicaux" - (1) Invocatio (un fragment), from our Alice Tully Hall Concert this past December.
JSQ Rehearsal Sessions - Michelle Ross "Birds on the Moon"
Yesterday was the birthday of the late Roger Tapping, our beloved colleague and friend. It feels especially meaningful to be playing the NYC premiere of Michelle Ross' (@lamichellle ) "Birds on the Moon" (2024) tomorrow at @peoplessymphony , a quartet commissioned by the JSQ and dedicated to Roger. We are so grateful for Michelle's music that radiates earnest beauty, joy,celebration and the profound sense of connection that we all feel towards Roger and each other, and are looking forward to sharing this meaningful piece with our New York audience.
When passion runs high with the @juilliardstringquartet , unexpected parts of the instrument might come off. That was a new one...! Has this ever happened to anyone else??
