In front of a packed house at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall, the Emerson Quartet finished up a whirlwind week of concerts that closed the quartet’s 34th season.  Read on about performances in Aspen, Chicago, Portland, Ottawa and Lenox, MA. ______________________________________________________________ in David’s words… ______________________________________________________________ Well, we made it through another one.  That’s always my thought on [...]

For the first time since 2004, the Emerson String Quartet is visiting the Far East, with stops in Hong Kong, Korea and Japan. Read David’s city-by-city blog below for updates posted direct from the tour. ______________________________________________________________ in David’s words… ______________________________________________________________ It was a thrill to board Delta flight 0027 in Detroit on June 2nd for the [...]

If I want to know if a cellist is meeting the requirements for good quartet playing, I don’t think about how I would play the part. I imagine how David Soyer would have played it. As a very young cellist I first became aware of the magic of great string quartet playing by listening to [...]

After performing the two Opus 5 sonatas of Beethoven at Alice Tully Hall on January 31, David Finckel was brought a message backstage that the Emerson Quartet had just won its ninth Grammy award in Los Angeles, for “Intimate Letters”, the quartet’s recording of the Janacek Quartets. A complete list of the Emerson’s Grammys follows. [...]

Beginning with four consecutive concerts in Spain, during which the quartet was joined by pianist Emanuel Ax for the quintet by Dvorak, the Emerson Quartet fall Europe tour was rounded out by performances in Turin, Naples and Rome, with a stop in London for two concerts at Wigmore Hall. In addition to the quintet repertoire, [...]

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Only movements away from completing its latest recording project for Deutsche Grammophon, the Emerson Quartet met at New York’s Academy of Arts and Letters with violist Paul Neubauer to record Dvorak’s “American” quintet, for string quartet plus viola. The recording will be included in a forthcoming release of the late quartets of Dvorak in the [...]

After a concert in the new Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Emerson Quartet departed New York for a tour of major European festivals. Beginning with two concerts in at the Salzburg Festival, the quartet performed Dvorak in Prague, Bach and Mendelssohn in Leipzig, Schubert in Schwarzenberg, Beethoven in Edinburgh and [...]

______________________________________________________________ in David’s words… ______________________________________________________________ This tour was, on all accounts, one of the most enjoyable and successful of our career. We were cared for with great personal attention and foresight in every country; we played to full, enthusiastic houses; we met extraordinary people of different generations who keep classical music coming to their cities; [...]

______________________________________________________________ in David’s words… ______________________________________________________________ Our final concerts of the tour took place in the legendary capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires. The name Argentina originates from the Latin word for silver “argentum”, as the country is rich in silver and was referred to in the early 17th century as “Tierra Argentina”. Argentina gained its independence [...]