Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han traveled to four Asian cities last month, taking six flights and performing the same number of concerts.

One of these was staged at the Shanghai Concert Hall on Dec 14, when together with their colleagues from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, Finckel and Wu played works by Beethoven, Schoenfield and Schubert.

The audience in Shanghai was fantastic, Wu said. "We could sense they were listening with such intense feeling. It proves Shanghai has a significant audience for chamber music."

Finckel and Wu have been artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - the largest performing arts complex in the world - since 2004. The society, the largest presenter of chamber music in North America, will celebrate its 50th birthday next year.

Finckel said, "There is no other organization like this in the world.