Meet the Quartet
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Violin IKorean-Australian violinist Harriet Langley received her education from New England Conservatory, Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, and The Juilliard School. An accomplished soloist, she has performed with ensembles including the London Chamber Orchestra, the Verbier Festival Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Reno Philharmonic, the Gyeonggi Philharmonic of Korea, and the Orchestre National de Belgique. Harriet has also performed at the Seiji Ozawa Academy, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, YellowBarn, and the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove. Other than music, Harriet enjoys reading, going to museums, and she has a passion for perfumes and teas.
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Viola
Violist Chih-Ta Chen, from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is the winner of the 2022 Chimei Arts Award and the 2018 Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award. His passion lies in chamber music, and he has been featured at Music@Menlo, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Taos School of Music, Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, and the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival. Chen held the Jean J. Sterne and Edwin B. Garrigues Fellowship as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, studying under Roberto Diaz, Hsin-Yun Huang, Ed Gazouleas and Misha Amory. Before that, he attended the New England Conservatory and Tainan National University of the Arts and studied with Mai Motobuchi, Yong-Zhan Chen, and I-Chen Wang. In his free time, he loves playing badminton and spending time with his two-year-old gray cat, Cheetah.
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Violin IIViolinist Amelia Dietrich earned her Bachelor of Music from The Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles under the teaching of Robert Lipsett, and her Master’s degree from The Juilliard School studying with Ida Kavafian. She grew up studying in North Carolina with her long-time mentor, Ara Gregorian. Amelia has concertized in chamber series across the US, Europe, and Australia, including Alice Tully Hall’s Wednesdays at One, National Sawdust, The Guggenheim, the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, the ClasClas Chamber Festival in Spain, and the Moritzburg Festival in Germany. Beyond her performance career, Amelia has a passion for pedagogy and mentoring young musicians. She is a mentor and chamber music coach with the New York Youth Symphony, maintains a private teaching studio in New York City, and teaches at Suzuki on the Island- a school in Manhasset, NY. She enjoys running, is an avid cook, and has a passion for fashion and interior design.
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Cello
Praised for her “lyricism of dramatic intensity” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “longevity of phrasing” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), Audrey Chen is the cellist of the Terra String Quartet. She has performed at leading venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, and Sumitomolife Izumi Hall. She has appeared as a soloist with the Seattle Symphony and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and is a frequent guest artist with the Jupiter Chamber Players and Boston Chamber Music Society. Audrey has also been featured at festivals including Yellow Barn, Music@Menlo, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Tanglewood Music Center, and the Perlman Music Program. A graduate of the Harvard/New England Conservatory dual-degree program, Audrey earned a B.A. in Molecular Biology from Harvard University and a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Laurence Lesser and Lluís Claret, before completing her Doctor of Musical Arts at the CUNY Graduate Center under the guidance of Marcy Rosen. During her doctoral studies, she taught chamber music at Hunter College and was named a 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow for New Americans. Outside of music, Audrey enjoys watching films and working on jigsaw puzzles.