Formosa Quartet

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The Formosa Quartet is an American string quartet. The quartet won the First Prize and the Amadeus Prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in 2006,{{cite web|title=Wigmore Hall|url=http://wigmore-hall.org.uk/string-quartet-competition/past-winners|website=London String Quartet Competition|access-date=16 March 2015}} and is committed to championing the indigenous music of under-represented cultures, and to stretching the boundaries of string quartet expression.

The Quartet premiered Taiwanese-American composer Shih-Hui Chen's Returning Souls: Four Pieces on Three Formosan Amis Legends in 2014,{{cite news|title=Art of Élan sets season of ‘reflections’|url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/aug/13/art-of-elan-season-2013/|access-date=16 March 2015|publisher=U-T San Diego|date=August 13, 2013}} and the Quartet's recording of its first commission from Ms. Chen, Fantasia on the Theme of Plum Blossom, was released on the New World Records label in 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=91919|website=New World Records|access-date=16 March 2015|title=New World Records: Album Details}}

From 2014 to 2016 season, Formosa Quartet enjoyed a two-year residency with Art of Élan, a San Diego arts-presenting organization.{{cite web|url=http://artofelan.org/who-we-are/ensemble-in-residence/|website=Art of Elan|access-date=16 March 2015|title=Ensemble-In-Residence}} As ensemble-in-residence, Formosa worked with UCSD professor of composition Lei Liang to create a new piece based on the indigenous music of Taiwan. The culmination of the two-year project was the premiere performance of the commission, Song Recollections, and Formosa's 2019 critically acclaimed record album, From Hungary To Taiwan.