Cong Quartet
String Quartet

A string quartet in demand around Asia, Europe, and the United States, Cong Quartet is the top prize and Adolfo Betti Award winner of the Virtuoso & Belcanto’s Chamber Music Competition in Italy and Salzburg Mozart International Chamber Competition in Tokyo, they were also a laureate at the 15th Banff International String Quartet Competition and International Music Competition Triomphe de l’Art in Brussels. The quartet is currently Ensemble-in-Residence of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), a role that they held in 2019-2022 and resumed in 2025, they also served the Musique à Flaine ’s artistic residency in France in 2023.

Supported by the Emerging Artists Scheme of the Hong Kong Art Development Council (ADC) and the Stichting Utopia (The Utopia Foundation) back in 2019, Cong Quartet became a quartet at the Nederlandse Strijkkwartet Academie (NSKA), as well as being on the young artist roster of the Musethica in Europe, a musical partner of Domaine de La Garde in Bourg-en-Bresse in France, and a member of the Le Dimore del Quartetto in Italy.

The quartet has participated in the String Quartet Biennale in Paris, the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar and the Robert Mann String Quartet Institute in New York, the European Chamber Music Academy(ECMA),  the Ashkenasi/Kirshbaum Chamber Music Seminar at The Heifetz International Music Institute, the Intensive String Quartet seminar at Music Academy Hörpu in Iceland, the Ozawa International Chamber Music in Japan, as well as Music in PyeongChang in South Korea and sponsored by the Artsylvia Foundation. They have also coached young & adult chamber music groups at CUHK, the Madeline Island Chamber Music, HIMA USA, the Indiana University Summer String Academy, the Accademia Internazionale di Musica di Cagliari and many other places.

Their important mentors include members of the Quatuor Ysaÿe, Quatuor Danel and Quatuor Ébène in Europe, the Pacifica Quartet, Shmuel Ashkenasi & Borromeo Quartet in the USA, and Ivan Chan of the Miami Quartet during their time at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. They have also worked extensively with members of Brentano, Cavani, Dover, Ébène, Guarneri, Jerusalem, Juilliard, Shanghai & Tokyo Quartets on different occasions.  Cong Quartet have performed with world-renowned artists such as Yovan Markovitch, Enrico Pace, Yuri Bashmet, Joshua Bell and Timo-Veikko “Tipi” Valve among many others. In these past years, they also focused on collaborations with prominent musicians of their generation such as violinists Angela Chan, Jinjoo Cho, Shannon Lee, Callum Smart, violists Juan-Miguel Hernandez & Adrien La Marca, cellists Brannon Cho & Sterling Elliott.

Cong Quartet believes that the humanistic experience of chamber music is a treasure to the community. They share the philosophy of promoting chamber repertoire from their generation and in Hong Kong, as well as integrating chamber music into the daily lives of audiences. The name of the quartet, “CONG” is a combination of the quartet founding members’ last names that allude to Hong “Kong”, where the members grew up and played together since their teenage years before the Quartet was officially formed at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in the US.  The quartet plays on a set of instruments made for the quartet’s 10th anniversary by Yair Hod Fainas in Paris since 2025, all four instruments were made with wood from the same tree and were tailor-made for the members of the quartet.

To celebrate their 10th season in the 25-26 season, Cong Quartet performed at the Philharmonie de Paris, The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht and many other significant venues during their anniversary tour. They performed as guest artists in recitals at various schools around the globe and did a residency at the Composers Forum of the University of North Texas in 2019. Cong Quartet have also served as judges and/or guest performers for many competitions, such as the Hong Kong Youth Music Interflows of Music Office, the New Generation call-for-score competition and the Emerging Composer Fellowship of Hong Kong Composers’ Guild. In 2025, the quartet was invited by the Hong Kong Education Bureau to give a lecture on Classical String Quartets to high school music teachers.