Founded in September 2017, the Tempest String Quartet (Leonard Fu, Yiliang Jiang, violin; Freya Irani, viola; Annabel Hauk, violoncello) has won New England Conservatory’s Honors Ensemble 2017-18 Award with performances of J. Haydn and F. Mendelssohn’s string quartets. They will be performing a full recital in renowned Jordan Hall and other concerts in the Greater Boston Area as well as they are recipient of a scholarship to support their studies at NEC.