Join us on Saturday, October 4 at 3:00 pm for a performance by the Terra String Quartet, the fellowship quartet-in-residence at the Yale University School of Music.
Program
| Composer | Work | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Franz Joseph Haydn | String Quartet in G major, Op. 33 No. 5 | 1781 |
| Augusta Read Thomas | Magic Gardens: II. “Celebrations” | 2020 |
| Intermission | ||
| Franz Schubert | String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D. 804 “Rosamunde” | 1824 |
About the Ensemble
Recent prizewinners at the 2025 Bordeaux and the Wigmore Hall International Quartet Competitions, the Terra String Quartet (TSQ) is a vibrant young international ensemble based in New York City. The ensemble strives to foster conversation and genuine human connection through their performances and pedagogy. The artists in the quartet are graduates of The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Harvard University, and the Curtis Institute of Music.
TSQ has won top prizes at the 2025 Bordeaux Quartet Competition, the 2025 Wigmore Hall Quartet Competition, the 2023 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, the 2023 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, and the 2022 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. They were also awarded the Christine and David Anderson Career Development Prize at the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition.
TSQ has performed at numerous festivals and venues across the world, with recent concerts at Capital Region Classical, Rockport Music, Guarneri Hall, Chamber Music Raleigh, Randolph College, and the Emilia-Romagna Festival in Italy. During 2024-2025, they were the Fellowship Ensemble-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music and the Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. Their mentors and coaches have included members of the Brentano Quartet, Ara Gregorian, Hye-Jin Kim, and Marcy Rosen.
About the Artists
Harriet Langley
Born in Sydney, Australia, Korean-Australian violinist Harriet Langley made her professional debut with the Reno Philharmonic of Nevada at the age of 13. Harriet has performed as a soloist with the London Chamber Orchestra, the Verbier Festival Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Gyeonggi Philharmonic of Korea, Orchestre National de Belgique, l’Orchestre Royal Philharmonique de Liège, Bruno Walter Orchestra of Germany, and Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie of Belgium.
Ms. Langley has participated in a number of academies and festivals, including the Seiji Ozawa International Music Academy in Switzerland, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont, and the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, Cornwall. She has recorded two CDs with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège; the Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto 7 (2011) and Saint-Saëns Pieces for Violin, including Havanaise and Romances (2013).
Harriet Langley began violin studies in Korea at age 4. She continued her studies in Tokyo, Japan with Asako Iwasawa at the Toho Gakuin Music School, and then in New York with Patinka Kopec and Pinchas Zukerman at the Manhattan School of Music. She then studied with Josef Rissin at the Karlsruhe Hochschule fur Musik in Germany and with Augustin Dumay at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth of Belgium. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at the New England Conservatory as a student of Miriam Fried and Lucy Chapman, and she is currently completing her Master’s degree at The Juilliard School as a student of Catherine Cho and Daniel Phillips.
Amelia Dietrich
A native of North Carolina, violinist Amelia Dietrich recently graduated from the Colburn Conservatory where she studied with Robert Lipsett. She is currently a Juilliard first year Master’s student of Ida Kavafian.
An avid chamber musician, Amelia was a founding member of the Calla Quartet, silver medalist at the 2015 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. She has performed throughout the United States and Australia at venues such as The Four Seasons Music Festival, Alice Tully Hall, the Mimir Festival in Melbourne, and Concerts on the Hill in New Hampshire. She has collaborated with artists Robert McDonald, Alessio Bax, Ida Kavafian, Ani Kavafian, Steve Tenenbom, Roger Tapping, Marc Coppey, and Michael Kanen.
Amelia has spent her summers at the Internationale Sommerakademie in Austria, Yellow Barn Young Artist Program, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and The Perlman Chamber Music Workshop. Amelia proudly performs on a 1794 Johannes Cuypers violin.
Chih-Ta Chen
Violist Chih-Ta Chen, from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is the winner of the 2022 Chimei Arts Award and the 2018 Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award. His passion lies in performing chamber music, and he has been featured at Music@Menlo, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Taos School of Music, Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, and Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival.
Chen holds the Jean J. Sterne and Edwin B. Garrigues Fellowship as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, studying under Roberto Diaz, Hsin-Yun Huang, Ed Gazouleas, and Misha Amory. Previously, he attended the New England Conservatory and Tainan National University of the Arts and studied with Mai Motobuchi, Yong-Zhan Chen, and I-Chen Wang.
Chen plays on the c.1600 “Louis Bailly” viola by Gasparo Bertolotti ‘da Salò,’ loaned from Curtis Institute of Music. In his free time, he loves playing with his two-year-old gray cat, Cheetah.
Audrey Chen
Praised for her “lyricism of dramatic intensity” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “longevity of phrasing” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), cellist Audrey Chen has performed around the world in venues including Carnegie Hall, the Mariinsky Theatre, Royal Albert Hall, Disney Hall, and the Kennedy Center. She has appeared on NPR’s From the Top Radio Show, concertized with the Seattle Symphony and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and has been featured as a guest artist with the Boston Chamber Music Society, Silk Road Ensemble, Argus Quartet, Parker Quartet, and Borromeo Quartet.
An avid chamber musician, Audrey’s festival appearances include performing at Yellowbarn, Olympic Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Four Seasons Chamber Music, Perlman Music Program, Tanglewood Music Center, Taos Music School, and Sarasota Music Festival.
Audrey received her B.A. from Harvard University and an M.M. from the New England Conservatory, where her teachers included Laurence Lesser and Lluis Claret. She is pursuing a D.M.A. at the CUNY Graduate Center under Marcy Rosen while teaching at CUNY Hunter College. Audrey was recently named a 2022 recipient of the prestigious Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
About the Concert
This performance begins at 3:00 pm. Join us an hour earlier for a pre-concert discussion about the music on the program. After the performance, you’ll have an opportunity to meet the artist(s) and learn about their backgrounds, interests, and career plans.
The address of the venue is 103 North Road, Wakefield, Rhode Island 02879. Driving time from Providence, Newport, Westerly, and southeastern Connecticut is under an hour, and Amtrak’s Kingston Station is only five miles away.
Contributions
The suggested contribution for this concert is $50 per person, collected at the door. We accept cash, personal checks, and cards. Checks should be payable to “Core Memory Music”. All contributions go directly to our performing artists. To make your contribution in advance, click here.
Children under 18 are welcome to join us free of charge.
Reservations
If you’d like to attend this concert, send us an email with the full name of each person in your party. If seating is still available, we’ll confirm your reservation.
If you can’t attend the concert, we invite you to listen to the audio livestream (no reservation required).