Update 5/1/2022: In view of the government's decision to close all performance venues because of the current situation with COVID-19, we are very sad to announce that all the ticketed events of Beare’s Premiere Music Festival 2022 and its outreach activities (open rehearsals and masterclasses) will have to be cancelled or postponed. Details of concert cancellations, postponements and refunds will be announced in due course.

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"Exceptionally talented violinist and a first class musician” - Maestro Zubin Mehta on Dan Zhu “Truly brilliant, compelling, and polished” - Boston Musical Intelligencer on Dan Zhu In the twilight years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, there was a second renaissance of culture in Vienna. Although Mahler and Strauss are better known for their grant symphonic and operatic works, their chamber music, composed in their youth, already shows the blueprint for their later masterpieces. And Korngold was praised by Mahler and Strauss as “the next Mozart” – ready to take the crown as their successor of the Viennese musical world.

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Programme: MAHLER Piano Quartet in A Minor Dan Zhu (violin), Andrew Ling (viola), Richard Bamping (cello), Zee Zee (piano) KORNGOLD String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op.26 Romer String Quartet R STRAUSS Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 18 Dan Zhu, (violin), Warren Lee (piano)