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Robert Warner

Robert began his musical training at an early age in his native Pennsylvania, studying both piano and violin as a child.  He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester where he majored in both music and mathematics, during which time he also took harpsichord lessons and studied Baroque performance practice at the Eastman School of Music.  He continued his early music studies at Stony Brook University under the tutelage of Arthur Haas, serving as manager and assistant director of the Stony Brook Baroque ensemble and eventually earning a master's degree in music history as well as a DMA in harpsichord performance.​



Upon graduating from Stony Brook, Robert was accepted into the Juilliard School’s Historical Performance program where he took harpsichord lessons with Peter Sykes, Richard Egarr and Beatrice Martin and performed extensively as a continuo keyboardist and violist in projects led by Jordi Savall, William Christie and others.  He currently resides in New York City and is once again splitting his time between music and math, maintaining an active performing schedule while working as a math tutor.  Recent musical engagements have included concerts with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Boston Baroque and Upper Valley Baroque.  He also performs regularly with Musicivic Baroque and Relic Ensemble as the primary harpsichordist for both groups.



 

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Honggang Li

Honggang Li is the founding member of the Shanghai Quartet, now in it’s 30th season, has performed over two thousand concerts in 30 countries, and can be heard on more than 30 CD albums. Mr. Li began studying the violin with his parents at age seven. When the Central Conservatory of music in Beijing reopened in 1977 after the Cultural Revolution, Mr. Li was selected to attend from a group of over five hundred applicants. He continued his training at the Shanghai Conservatory and co- founded the Shanghai Quartet with his brother Weigang while in his senior year in the conservatory. The quartet soon became the first Chinese quartet to win a major international chamber music competition (the London International) and came to the US in 1985. He received MM of North Illinois University and served as a teaching assistant at the Juilliard School in New York. In 1987, he won the special prize (a 1757 DeCable violin) given by Elisa Pegreffi of Quartetto Italiano at the First Paolo Borciani International Competition in Italy. In addition to his work at the Bard Conservatory of Music Mr. Li is currently also an artist-in-residence and faculty at Montclair State University. He also held the title of artist in residence at University of Richmond in Virginia from 1989 to 2003. He has been the guest professor of both conservatories of Shanghai and Beijing. Mr. Li is also the guest principal violist of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra since 2009.