Amphion String Quartet

Katie Hyun, violin
David Southorn, violin
Wei-Yang Andy Lin, viola
Mihai Marica, cello

Winner, 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition

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Hailed for its “gripping intensity” and “suspenseful and virtuoso playing” by the San Francisco Classical Voice , the Amphion String Quartet is a winner of the 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. The Quartet was also awarded First Prize at the Hugo Kauder String Quartet Competition in New Haven, CT, and First Prize in the Piano and Strings category as well as the Audience Choice Award at the 2010 Plowman Chamber Music Competition held in Columbia, Missouri. 

Highlights of the 2011-2012 season include New York performances on the Schneider Concerts Series at the New School and on the Salome Chamber Orchestra Series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in addition to the Tertulia chamber music series.  Other season highlights include the Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University and Elon University Artists Series in North Carolina, plus the Quartet also gives the World Premiere performance of a new string quartet by John Sichel in New Jersey.

In summer 2011, the Amphion Quartet was the Protégé Quartet-in-Residence at Chamber Music Northwest, where the quartet had the opportunity to collaborate with artistic director/clarinetist David Shifrin, and they also performed at the OK Mozart Festival.  The previous summer, the foursome performed at California’s Music@Menlo International Program, and also participated in the Beethoven Institute at New York’s Mannes College of Music, where they worked closely with the Brentano Quartet. 

Other recent performances include the Beinecke Library at Yale University, the WMP Strad for Lunch Series in New York and the Chelsea Art Museum, as well as New Jersey’s Mostly Music Festival, with such renowned artists as Ani Kavafian, Carter Brey, and Ettore Causa,

Violinists Katie Hyun and David Southorn, violist, Wei-Yang Andy Lin, and cellist, Mihai Marica, first joined together for a performance at Sprague Hall at the Yale School of Music in February, 2009. The overwhelmingly positive audience reception at this concert was the inspiration behind their mutual desire to pursue a career as the Amphion String Quartet.