Elinor Frey & David Fung
Biographie Elinor Frey & David Fung
David Fung - Piano
Praised as having “undoubted talent” by the Los Angeles Times and described as being “impossibly virtuosic” by the Edinburgh Guide, young Australian pianist David Fung has performed as soloist with orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Camerata, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa of Japan, the Queensland Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra among numerous others.
Festival highlights include recital invitations at the Aspen Music Festival, Goslar Festival (Germany), Der Internationaler Klaviersommer (Germany), Music at Menlo, and the 2006 Edinburgh International Festival Queen’s Hall Series, where Fung was acclaimed as being “prodigiously talented... probably [doing] ten more impossible things daily before breakfast,” by Jonas Green in the Edinburgh Guide.
Mr. Fung was a top prizewinner at the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition in Tel Aviv, where he was also distinguished by additional prizes for Best Classical Concerto and Best Performance of Chamber Music. He won 2nd Prize and the Audience Prize in the 3rd Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition, and was the grand prizewinner of the 2002 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award.
Mr. Fung has recorded albums with NAXOS, Yarlung Records, Linn Records, and ABC Classics/Symphony Australia, and can also be heard on dozens of labels around the world.
Mr. Fung holds a Bachelor of Music and Artist’s Diploma from the Colburn Conservatory, where he worked with John Perry, and a Master of Music at the Yale University with Peter Frankl. Mr. Fung has also worked with world-class pianists such as Emanuel Ax, Boris Berman, Alfred Brendel, Yefim Bronfman, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Andràs Schiff, and Arie Vardi. Mr. Fung is a Steinway Artist.
Elinor Frey - Cellist
Hailed as an 'Impeccable cellist' by Montreal's La Presse, 'A superb cellist' by the Syracuse Post-Standard, and an 'unquestionable and robust talent' by the Giornale di Brescia, Elinor Frey's recent accolades include the 2009/10 Fulbright Grant to Italy, as well as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship, and a Canada Council for the Arts grant facilitating her work on Italian baroque and modern unaccompanied cello music. Recognized for presenting dynamic and personal performances for her audiences, the 2010-11 seasons will bring Elinor to both North America and Europe, such as performing Bernstein's 'Three Meditations' with the Grand Junction Symphony, Colorado, Schumann Cello Concerto with the Rogue Valley Symphony in Ashland, Oregon, recitals and master classes at Istanbul Tecnhical University, Turkey, and, as a baroque cellist, concerts with Ensemble Caprice and Ensemble Masques.
Elinor's recent appearances have included unaccompanied cello recitals and master classes at the American Academy in Rome, Cornell University, Dartmouth University, Bowdoin College, Mesa State University, and Ithaca College. Passionate advocate of new music, Elinor is currently cellist of Ensemble KORE in Montreal, Quebec and her debut album, Dialoghi, was released in 2008 on the Yarlung Records label. Through generous grants from supporters, Elinor plays on a beautiful 1962 Mario Gadda cello, an un-named Klengenthal-style baroque cello from the mid-18th century, a Louis Begin baroque bow, and a superb Charles Espey modern bow which she recently commissioned.
Currently Doctor of Music candidate at McGill University, where she is also a course instructor, Elinor studies baroque cello with Paolo Beschi in Como, Italy, and in Montreal with Susie Napper, as well as modern cello with Matt Haimovtiz. She received a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School and a B.M. from the Mannes College of Music. Elinor has served on numerous faculties including the Ithaca College Summer Chamber Music Institute, CAMMAC Ontario, the Ithaca Suzuki Institute, and Orvieto Musica in Italy.
