“American’s greatest quartet”
The Emerson String Quartet has maintained its status as one of the world’s premier chamber music ensembles for more than four decades. The Quartet has made more than 30 acclaimed recordings, and has been honored with nine GRAMMYs® (including two for Best Classical Album), three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize, and Musical America’s “Ensemble of the Year” award. They have worked with some of today’s most esteemed composers to premiere new works, and have partnered with soloists such as Renée Fleming, Barbara Hannigan, Evgeny Kissin, Emanuel Ax, and Yefim Bronfman, to name a few.
News
The Emerson String Quartet announce feature length documentary, LATE STYLE: THE FINAL NOTES OF THE EMERSON QUARTET
Approaching the end of an almost five decade-long, one of the foremost string quartets in the world looks back...
Concerts
Chamber Music Houston
Stude Concert Hall
Mozart: Quartet No. 15 in d minor, K. 421 Mendelssohn: Quartet No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 12 Brahms: Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 67 Time: 7:30 pm
Wolf Trap
Chamber Music at The Barns
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130, with Grosse Fuge as finale Time: 7:30 pm
The Buffalo Chamber Music Society
Kleinhans Music Hall
Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, Op. 33, No. 5 in G Major, Hob. III: 41 Shostakovich: String Quartet in D-flat Major, Op. 133 Intermission Dvorak: String Quartet in A-flat Major, Op. 105 Time: 7:30 pm
Schumann: String Quartets
The Emerson String Quartet makes its PENTATONE debut with a recording of Schumann’s three string quartets.
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Feature
Amid Old Friends Again, Emerson Quartet Offers Farewell To Remember
The Emerson String Quartet, which retires from the concert stage at the end of this season, played an eloquent valedictory program Dec. 4 for Vancouver’s Friends of Chamber Music, which has long been the ensemble’s host on Canada’s West Coast.