Fusion String Ensemble

We are Fusion String Ensemble!

Fusion String Ensemble was founded in 2007 by a group of musician friends interested in performing classical music alongside an array of different genres of music. Since then, we have shared works of Bach, Beethoven, Holst, Mozart, Shostakovich, Huey Lewis and the News, Billy Joel, Radiohead, Snarky Puppy, Dropkick Murphys and themes from "Game of Thrones" and "Downton Abbey".

We have performed in Symphony Hall Boston, Montreal, Washington D.C., Chicago and New York City. Fusion String Ensemble played the National Anthem at LaLacheur Park, home of the Boston Red Sox Short Season Single A Affiliate, the Lowell Spinners.

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Brian Bunnell, Conductor

Unity Boston at Christ's Church Longwood

70 Colchester St.

Brookline, MA 02460

Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 7:30PM

VII. Waltz No. 2 (from Suite for Variety Orchestra) by Dmitri Shostakovich (arr. Abe Dewing) 3:50

Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 8:25

The Real Hero (from Avengers: Endgame) by Alan Silvestri (arr. Abe Dewing) 5:56

Serenade for String Orchestra by Norman Leyden 11:06

I. Prelude

II. Fugue 2:10

III. Nocturne 4:17

IV. Cakewalk 8:12

Variation IX (Adagio) "Nimrod" (from Enigma Variations) by Edward Elgar 4:21

(plus Dropkick Murphys hidden track)

FUSION STRING ENSEMBLE is

Violin I

Janet Martins, concertmaster

Sarah Izen

Jeff Bezanson

Violin II

Jennifer Lyons
Abe Dewing
Joanna Ostrander

Viola

Kim Etingoff

Samara Schwartz

Amy Sexauer

Cello
Amy Nolan
Kevin Hedrick

Joydita Sarkar
Bekah Goldstein

Bass

Nate Haggett

Piano
Samara Schwartz

Guitar
Kevin Martins

Conductor

Brian Bunnell

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Kadar Qian, Music Director

throws a

Unity Boston at Christ's Church Longwood
70 Colchester St.
Brookline, MA 02460

Friday, August 24, 2018 at 8:00PM

CONCERT PROGRAM

MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525

SNARKY PUPPY (arr. for strings): Gretel

TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante cantabile from String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11

~ Intermission ~

BLOCH: Concerto Grosso No. 1

BILLY JOEL (arr. Joydita): The Longest Time

* plus hidden track from HBO's Westworld

FUSION STRING ENSEMBLE is

Violin I

Adriana Heredia, concertmaster

Joanna Ostrander

Sarah Izen

Violin II

Garrett Levesque
Taylor Blankenship
Abe Dewing

Viola

Kim Etingoff

Samara Schwartz

Amy Sexauer

Brian Diaz

Cello

Joydita Sarkar
Bekah Goldstein
Amy Nolan

Bass

Nate Haggett

Conductor, Piano

Kadar Qian

Tickets are available at the door and through Eventbrite!

Sunday, August 6, 2017

Fusion String Ensemble
Kadar Qian, Music Director

presents:

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

W83 Ministry Center
150 W 83rd St
New York, New York 10024

Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 7:30PM

CONCERT PROGRAM

DIVERTIMENTO IN F MAJOR, K. 138 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

SERENADE FOR STRING ORCHESTRA, OP. 20 by Edward Elgar

LIBERTANGO & OBLIVION by Astor Piazzolla

~ INTERMISSION ~

NOCTURNE FROM STRING QUARTET NO. 2 by Alexander Borodin

ROMANIAN FOLK DANCES by Béla Bartók

ANDANTE SPIANATO and GRANDE POLONAISE BRILLANTE, OP. 22 by Frederic Chopin

FUSION STRING ENSEMBLE is

Violin I

Adriana Heredia, concertmaster

Jeff Bezanson

Sarah Izen

Violin II

Abe Dewing

Flora Lee

Viola

Kim Etingoff

Samara Schwartz

Joanna Ostrander

Brian Diaz

Cello

Joydita Sarkar
Kevin Hedrick

Bass

Nate Haggett

Conductor

Kadar Qian

Monday, July 10, 2017

Fusion String Ensemble Concert: DECADE

Fusion String Ensemble
Kadar Qian, Music Director

presents:

DECADE

Unity Boston at Christ's Church Unity
70 Colchester St.
Brookline, MA

Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 7:30PM

CONCERT PROGRAM

DIVERTIMENTO IN F MAJOR, K. 138 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

SERENADE FOR STRING ORCHESTRA, OP. 20 by Edward Elgar

NOCTURNE FROM STRING QUARTET NO. 2 by Alexander Borodin

ROMANIAN FOLK DANCES by Béla Bartók

LIBERTANGO & OBLIVION by Astor Piazzolla

FUSION STRING ENSEMBLE is

Violin I

Adriana Heredia, concertmaster
Janet Martins

Jeff Bezanson

Sarah Izen

Violin II

Abe Dewing

Klenda Martinez

Flora Lee

Viola

Kim Etingoff

Samara Schwartz

Joanna Ostrander

Brian Diaz

Cello

Joydita Sarkar
Kevin Hedrick

Bass

Nate Haggett

Conductor

Kadar Qian

Suggested Donation of $8 at the door or through Eventbrite.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Fusion String Ensemble performs at Symphony Hall

Fusion String Ensemble performed Elgar's Enigma Variations, The Beatles' Penny Lane and Brandenburg Concerto No.2 at Symphony Hall at the wedding of Fusionites, Doug & Emily.

Monday, August 1, 2016

Fusion String Ensemble: SIMPLE SYMPHONY, SPIANATO AND SUPPE

Fusion String Ensemble
Kadar Qian, Music Director

presents:

SIMPLE SYMPHONY, SPIANATO AND SUPPE

Unity Boston at Christ's Church Unity
70 Colchester St.
Brookline, MA

Friday, August 26, 2016 at 7:30PM

CONCERT PROGRAM

OVERTURE VON DICHTER UND BAUER (POET AND PEASANT) by Franz von Suppé, arr. for Strings

ANDANTE SPIANATO and GRANDE POLONAISE BRILLANTE, OP. 22 by Frederic Chopin
Kadar Qian, Piano

~ INTERMISSION ~

SIMPLE SYMPHONY, OP. 4 by Benjamin Britten

FUSION STRING ENSEMBLE is

Violin I

Janet Martins, concertmaster

Adriana Heredia

Jeff Bezanson

Sarah Izen

Violin II

Abe Dewing

Jenna Hoopingarner

Klenda Martinez

Flora Lee

Viola

Kim Etingoff

Samara Schwartz

Joanna Ostrander

Brian Diaz

Cello

Kevin Hedrick

Joydita Sarkar

Katherine Miller

Bass

Nate Haggett

Piano Soloist

Kadar Qian

Piano

Brian Diaz

Djembe

Joanna Ostrander

Conductor

Kadar Qian

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Fusion String Ensemble Performs at Newton Free Library

Fusion String Ensemble
Jon Ceander Mitchell, Guest Conductor

presents:

A WINTER SESSION

Druker Auditorium
at Newton Free Library

330 Homer Street

Newton, Massachusetts 02459

Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 2pm

CONCERT PROGRAM

SIMPLE GIFTS, A Traditional Shaker Hymn arr. Robert Frost

ÉLÉGIE, OP. 24 FOR CELLO AND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA by Gabriel Faure

Katherine Miller, cello

~ INTERMISSION ~

SYMPHONY NO. 5 - III. 4. ADIAGETTO by Gustav Mahler

JUPITER, THE BRINGER OF JOLLITY (from The Planets) ARR. FOR STRINGS & PERCUSSION by Gustav Holst

SHIPPING UP TO BOSTON ARR. FOR STRING ENSEMBLE by The Dropkick Murphys

FUSION STRING ENSEMBLE IS:

Violin I
Steve Lehr
Adriana Heredia

Violin II
Miriam Raffeld
Abe Dewing

Viola
Kim Etingoff
Joanna Ostrander

Cello
Amy Nolan
April Greene-Colozzi
Katherine Miller

Bass
Nate Haggett

Harp/Glockenspiel/Piano
Tim Blalock

Clarinet
Richard Romanoff

Percussion
Doug Jacobs

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Fusion String Ensemble performs in the Greater Chicago area!

Fusion String Ensemble
Kadar Qian, Music Director

presents:

THE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Taiwanese Community Fellowship Church
1420 S. Meyers Road
Lombard, IL 60148

Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 7:30pm
FREE

CONCERT PROGRAM

Salut d'Amour, Op.12 by Edward Elgar

Aurica Duca, violin & Kadar Qian, piano

Concertino pour Flûte, Op.107 by Cécile Chaminade

Rebecca Arnold, flute

Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9 by Georg Philipp Telemann
I. Largo
II. Allegro
III. Andante
IV. Presto

Clinton Dewing, viola

~ INTERMISSION ~

Symphony for Strings Opus 118a from String Quartet No. 10 by Dmitri Shostakovich

I. Andante

Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor, BWV 1060R (performed with 2 Violins) by Johann Sebastian Bach

I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegro

Clinton Dewing & Aurica Duca, violins

FUSION STRING ENSEMBLE IS:

First Violins

Janet Martins
Flora Lee
John Lyneis

Second Violins

Miriam Raffeld

Abe Dewing

Viola

Kim Etingoff

Sarah
Joanne Ostrander

Cello

Kevin Hedrick

Alex Revoal

Bass

Nate Haggett

Violin Soloists

Clinton Dewing

Aurica Duca

Viola Soloist

Clinton Dewing

Flute Soloist
Rebecca Arnold

Conductor, Pianist
Kadar Qian

SPECIAL THANKS

Ashley Sullivan, Craig, Kyle & Siena Dewing, Mom & Dad, Rev. Evrol Officer, Fritz Winegardner, UnityBoston, John W. Sears, Jane Chen, the fabulous soloists and our wonderful audience!

BENEFACTORS

Jane Chen
John W. Sears

SPONSORS

Taiwanese Association of America Greater Chicago Chapter (TAAGCC)

Formosan Association for Public Affairs - Illinois Chapter (FAPA-IC)

Global Education Fund (GEF)

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

THE EUROPEAN COLLECTION Digital Concert Program

Fusion String Ensemble

Kadar Qian, Music Director

presents:

THE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Christ's Church Longwood (UnityBoston)

70 Colchester Street

Brookline, Massachusetts

Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 7:30pm
Suggested Donation of $8

CONCERT PROGRAM

Salut d'Amour, Op.12 by Edward Elgar

Abe Dewing, violin & Kadar Qian, piano

Concertino pour Flûte, Op.107 by Cécile Chaminade

Rebecca Arnold, flute

Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9 by Georg Philipp Telemann
I. Largo
II. Allegro
III. Andante
IV. Presto

Clinton Dewing, viola

~ INTERMISSION ~

Symphony for Strings Opus 118a from String Quartet No. 10 by Dmitri Shostakovich

I. Andante

Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor, BWV 1060R (performed with 2 Violins) by Johann Sebastian Bach
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegro

Clinton Dewing & Aurica Duca, violins

FUSION STRING ENSEMBLE IS:

First Violins

Janet Martins
Flora Lee
John Lyneis

Jeff Bezanson

Second Violins

Miriam Raffeld

Abe Dewing

Klenda Martinez

Viola

Kim Etingoff
Joanne Ostrander

Cello

Kevin Hedrick

Katherine Miller
Amy Nolan

Bass

Nate Haggett

Violin Soloists

Clinton Dewing

Aurica Duca

Viola Soloist

Clinton Dewing

Flute Soloist
Rebecca Arnold

Conductor, Pianist
Kadar Qian

Saturday, August 1, 2015

PROGRAM NOTES

Salut D’Amour, Op. 12

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Elgar finished the piece in July 1888, when he was engaged to be married to Caroline Alice Roberts, and he called it "Liebesgruss" ('Love’s Greeting') because of her fluency in German. When he returned home to London on September 22 from a holiday at the house of his friend Dr. Charles Buck, in Settle, North Yorkshire, he presented it to her as an engagement present.

Concertino pour Flûte, Op.107

Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)

This piece was composed in 1902 for flute and orchestra and was commissioned by the Paris Conservatoire in 1902, presumably as an examination piece for flute students. Among flautists, legend has it that Chaminade wrote the Concertino to punish a flute-playing lover after he left her to marry someone else, wanting to make a piece so fiendishly difficult that he could not play it (though he supposedly did manage). However, Chaminade had married a music publisher the year before the piece was commissioned, which lessens the validity of the legend.

Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681- 1767)

Of Georg Philipp Telemann's surviving concertos, this piece is among his most famous, and still regularly performed today. It is the first known concerto for viola, was written circa 1716–1721 and contains four movements.

Symphony for Strings Opus 118a from String Quartet No. 10

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat major, op. 118, was composed in 1964. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet and is dedicated to his close friend Mieczysław (Moisei) Weinberg. We are performing just the first movement of the string quartet arrangement.

Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor, BWV 1060

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Neither the date of composition nor of the first performance is known. This concerto was originally written for solo violin and oboe, with string orchestra and continuo; the only surviving score, however, is of Bach’s own arrangement as a concerto for two harpsichords.