ANONYMOUS QUARTET
Formed in 2009, the Anonymous Quartet is Hong Kong's only professional piano quartet. It consists of some of the most sought-after musicians in Hong Kong, whose paths crossed after receiving their studies at prestigious conservatories and institutions in Germany, Australia, UK, USA and Canada, with all four having extensive chamber music experiences internationally. Performances have included the Hong Kong Museum of Art Concert Series, HK University of Science & Technology, and most recently in ‘Our Music Talents’ Series presented by LCSD in 2010. Upcoming engagements in 2011 include HK Chamber Music Society and a return performance at Hong Kong City Hall. In addition, they will present a masterclass at Chinese University of Hong Kong. They can also be heard on RTHK Radio 4.
This dynamic group brings their collective talents with a common goal to promote chamber music, particularly for the genre of the piano quartet, from old to new. The Anonymous Quartet is Gallant Ho (Violin), William Lane (Viola), Anna Kwan (Cello) and Sheryl Lee (Piano).
GALLANT HO KA LEUNG, VIOLIN
Violinist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra since 2002, Gallant Ho received his Bachelor Degree from the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts (HKAPA) in 2000 and earned his Master of Music Degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music after receiving a scholarship from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund for Overseas Study in 2000. At the conservatory, he studied violin under Wei He and Camilla Wicks, and chamber music with the late Nathan Schwartz.
He has performed in masterclasses for Joseph Silverstein, Henry Roth, Pinchas Zukerman, Yfrah Neaman, Sylvia Rosenburg, Jorja Fleezanis, Elmer Oliveira, Sergiu Luca and the late Isaac Stern. Gallant Ho has performed as a soloist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Symphony Orchestra.
WILLIAM LANE, VIOLA
Australian violist William Lane is Artistic Director of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician all over Australasia, Asia, Europe and North America. He studied under Jan Sedivka, Bruno Giuranna and Garth Knox, as well as in Germany at the International Ensemble Modern Akademie
William has been Principal Viola of the string orchestra Resonanz Chamber Orchestra (Hamburg, Germany) and worked with Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), the SMASH Ensemble (Salamanca, Spain). As an orchestral musician he has played in Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. As a new music advocate, he has also appeared as a guest lecturer and performer at University College Cork (Ireland), University of Newcastle (UK), Australian Institute of Music (Sydney), Princeton University (USA) and Kings College (London). In 2007 William also spent several months in India performing and researching as resident fellow of the ORKA-M International Institute of Innovative Music in Mumbai, on a research/performance scholarship from the Asialink Centre, The University of Melbourne.
ANNA KWAN TON AN, CELLO
Anna Kwan Ton An, an acclaimed young virtuoso of the new generation started learning the cello when she was ten at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She received her Bachelor Degree at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and obtained her Masters of Music at Yale University.
Anna has worked with members of the Vermeer, Emerson, Colorado and Tokyo String Quartets. In 1992, she was chosen to be the only representative from Hong Kong to attend the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, USA with full scholarship. She was principal cello of the Asian Youth Orchestra in 1995 and a member of the Jeunesses Musicales World Youth Orchestra, orchestra in residence of the Verbier Music Festival, Switzerland in 1996 and 1997. Anna also toured with the Yale Cellos, performing at the Manchester Cello Festival and Rencontre de Violoncelles in Beauvais, a CD of the concert was released for Calliope record label. Anna joined the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 2001. In 2006 she was invited by Maestro Myung-Whun Chung to perform as a member of the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra to perform in Seoul, Korea.
SHERYL LEE, PIANO
Canadian pianist Sheryl Lee gave her orchestral debut with Utah Symphony under the baton of Joseph Silverstein at the age of twelve before attending the Juilliard School shortly after.
Recent highlights include piano and chamber music recitals in Los Angeles, Virginia, Montreal, New Jersey, Italy and New York. She has performed in music festivals including Maverick Concerts (New York), Casalmaggiore (Italy), Sarasota (Florida), Aspen Music Festival (Colorado), Centre d’Arts Orford and Banff Music Centre in Canada. An active chamber musician, Sheryl performs regularly with musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Philadelphia, New York and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, to name a few. She has also worked with members of the Brentano, Emerson and Tokyo String Quartets.
Sheryl began her piano studies in her native Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. She received her education at New York University and Yale University where she was awarded the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund for her studies. Sheryl has served the artist faculty of chamber music at the award-winning New York Youth Symphony and New York University.
