The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Returns to Korea as Part of 2025 Asia Tour

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) will return to South Korea this fall as part of its 2025 Asia Tour, marking the ensemble’s first visit to the country since 2018. Officially invited by Goyang City, the concert will take place on Saturday, November 8, 2025, at 4:00 PM local time at the Goyang Aram Theater, presented by DotheG Record with the support of the Goyang Cultural Foundation. This engagement continues CMS’s longstanding relationship with Korean audiences, first established during its 2009 debut tour and deepened through a decade of collaborations, including performances at the LG Arts Center in partnership with LG Corporation. The 2025 performance in Goyang represents both a homecoming and a renewal of the strong cultural ties between Korea and the United States, as CMS introduces an intergenerational roster of artists who embody the ensemble’s depth, virtuosity, and commitment to chamber music of the highest caliber.

The touring ensemble for Korea is led by cellist David Finckel, Co-Artistic Director of CMS, and joined by pianist Hyeyeon Park, violinist Kristin Lee, violist Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, hornist Radovan Vlatković, and clarinetist Tommaso Lonquich. Their program showcases chamber music at its richest and most multi-dimensional with winds, strings, and piano featured in works by Bruch, Brahms, and Dohnányi. The evening opens with selections from Max Bruch’s Pieces for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, followed by Johannes Brahms’s Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano. Bruch’s pairing of the clarinet with cello, and Brahms’s pairing of the horn with violin, each offer deeply inspired variations on the traditional piano trio format. Both works stand as unique masterpieces of expressive beauty and lyrical imagination. After intermission, all artists join together in the Sextet by Hungarian composer Ernő Dohnányi, for a dazzling finish.  This vibrant work fuses romantic lyricism with the expressive range of all of these instruments and the intimacy of chamber music, offering Korean audiences a dynamic portrait of CMS’s artistry and spirit.

This performance launches CMS’s 2025 Asia Tour, which continues with engagements in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai, reaffirming CMS’s dedication to fostering cultural exchange and artistic collaboration through chamber music. The tour is part of CMS’s robust program of touring concerts and residencies, which brings world-class classical musicians and major works of chamber music to cities and towns throughout North America and beyond. Based in New York City at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, CMS is one of the world’s leading cultural institutions dedicated to chamber music, presenting hundreds of concerts, broadcasts, and educational programs worldwide each season, performed by a roster of more than 150 of today’s foremost musicians. 

The cello used on this tour has been generously loaned to David Finckel by Y. Chen Cellos.