The Shounen Thai Quartet, the Siam Orpheus Chamber Choir. and many guest artists!

JANUARY 4: THE JOURNEY - MOZART TO BARTOK

Thailand Cultural Centre (Small Hall) at 8 pm

Some of Thailand's most talented young musicians get together to perform chamber music from many periods. Musicians include Trisdee na Patalung performing a Mozart sonata, Clarinettist Le Dai, pianist Christopher McKiggan and VieTrio star violinist Paye Srinarong in a wide-ranging program from Muczynski to Schumann to Bartok.

JANUARY 5: THE SHOUNEN-THAI QUARTET - THE JOY OF DISSONANCES

Thailand Cultural Centre (Small Hall) at 8 pm

They haven't appeared in public for a few years, but this brilliant "boy band" who have been playing together since their mid-teens is relaunching itself in 2016 in preparation for an international tour. They will play the work with which the quartet first broke into public consciousness when they were all 15-16 years old, the Shostakovich Eighth. Plus Mozart's gorgeously daring "Dissonance" Quartet.
 

JANUARY 6:  NANCY YUEN, SOPRANO, SIAM ORPHEUS CHAMBER CHOIR, SIAM SINFONIETTA - EPIPHANIES

Thailand Cultural Centre (Small Hall) at 8 pm

One of Southeast Asia's leading sopranos appears to cap the festival with the 16-year-old Mozart's first masterpiece to never leave the international repertoire, the motet "Exsultate, Jubilate", with the Siam Sinfonietta under Somtow Sucharitkul. Also featuring the newly formed Siam Orpheus Chamber Choir performing music that celebrates "Epiphany", the official last day of Christmas.