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Canadian-born cellist Adrian Fung is a founding member of the Afiara String Quartet, winners of the Concert Artist Guild International Competition in New York and top prizes at the Munich ARD and Banff International String Quartet Competitions. With the Quartet, he has performed throughout the Americas and Europe, at such venues as Carnegie Hall’s Zankel and Weill Halls, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Library of Congress in DC, Sao Paulo’s Museum of Modern Art, Munich’s Prinz Regenten Theatre, and Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw.  As a soloist, he has given recitals in New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Goethe Institute, Montreal’s Pollack Hall, Toronto Centre of the Performing Arts, Living Arts Centre, and Taiwan’s National Concert Hall. He has been the featured soloist with Ensemble 212, Columbia Chamber Players, Oakville Symphony Orchestra, Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Mississauga Symphony.  Praised for his “superb” and “brilliant” performance (New York Concert Review), for his virtuosity (San Francisco Classical Voice), and as a “consummate interpreter” (Ontario Arts Review), Adrian was a winner of an Artist Grant from the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Goodrich Award from the National Arts Centre of Canada, and the Artists International Competition in New York. He has performed with the Juilliard, Alexander, and Cecilia String Quartets, Robert Aiken, Atar Arad, Denis Brott, James Campbell, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Anton Kuerti, and Michael Tree.
Canadian-born cellist Adrian Fung is a founding member of the [http://afiara.com/ Afiara String Quartet], winners of the Concert Artist Guild International Competition in New York and top prizes at the Munich ARD and Banff International String Quartet Competitions. With the Quartet, he has performed throughout the Americas and Europe, at such venues as Carnegie Hall’s Zankel and Weill Halls, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Library of Congress in DC, Sao Paulo’s Museum of Modern Art, Munich’s Prinz Regenten Theatre, and Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw.  As a soloist, he has given recitals in New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Goethe Institute, Montreal’s Pollack Hall, Toronto Centre of the Performing Arts, Living Arts Centre, and Taiwan’s National Concert Hall. He has been the featured soloist with Ensemble 212, Columbia Chamber Players, Oakville Symphony Orchestra, Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Mississauga Symphony.  Praised for his “superb” and “brilliant” performance (New York Concert Review), for his virtuosity (San Francisco Classical Voice), and as a “consummate interpreter” (Ontario Arts Review), Adrian was a winner of an Artist Grant from the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Goodrich Award from the National Arts Centre of Canada, and the Artists International Competition in New York. He has performed with the Juilliard, Alexander, and Cecilia String Quartets, Robert Aiken, Atar Arad, Denis Brott, James Campbell, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Anton Kuerti, and Michael Tree.


He has been widely broadcast through Bavarian Radio, CBC Radio 2, Toronto’s Classical 96.3, Denmark Broadcasting, TROS in the Netherlands, San Francisco’s KALW, New York’s WQXR, Rogers Daytime Television, and Bravo TV.
He has been widely broadcast through Bavarian Radio, CBC Radio 2, Toronto’s Classical 96.3, Denmark Broadcasting, TROS in the Netherlands, San Francisco’s KALW, New York’s WQXR, Rogers Daytime Television, and Bravo TV.
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