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The Emerson has been Quartet-in-Residence at Stony Brook University since 2002, and last season Philip Setzer and Lawrence Dutton, two full-time members of the Stony Brook faculty, were awarded the title of 'Distinguished Professor.' Part-time faculty members Eugene Drucker, David Finckel and Paul Watkins were named 'Honorary Distinguished Professor.” The members of the Emerson have received Honorary Doctorate degrees from the College of Wooster (OH), Bard College (NY), Hartt College of Music (CT), Middlebury College (VT). The Quartet has been committed to education throughout their career, and have mentored many young and rising string quartets. Internationally, multiple tours of Europe comprise dates in Austria, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom (including Wigmore Hall for a 40th Anniversary Gala) the Quartet also visits South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, as well as Mexico for the Festival Internacional Cervantino. The Emerson gives its debut performance with Wolf Trap in April.

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New to this season, the Quartet members have been selected as Artistic Advisors for Wolf Trap’s Chamber Music at The Barns in Virginia, curating the series in celebration of its 20th season.

Other anniversary season highlights include a concert with clarinetist David Shifrin as part of the Quartet’s season-long residency at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon, as well as collaboration with cellist Clive Greensmith for the Schubert Quintet at the Soka Performing Arts Center in California. The Emerson Quartet returns to New York City in May for a performance of Ravel and Berg quartets followed by the Brahms Quintet with legendary pianist Maurizio Pollini at Carnegie Hall. The world premiere of the new piece takes place at EJ Thomas Performing Arts Hall in Akron, OH, on September 27, presented by the Tuesday Musical Association. Mark has written wonderfully clear textures for the quartet, without sacrificing any of the medium’s power.” Beethoven’s Quartet in F minor, Bartόk’s Quartet No. According to Watkins, “The language of Shroud is striking for its starkly expressive intensity and rhythmic inventiveness. Turnage, who has previously worked with Emerson cellist Paul Watkins, wanted to highlight the Quartet’s “precision and fabulous interplay” utilizing complex rhythms and an interweaving melody. The Calidore String Quartet – mentees of the Emerson – joins for the Mendelssohn Octet in Chicago and NYC, and former Emerson cellist David Finckel appears as a special guest for Schubert’s Quintet in C Major in Purchase and NYC.įor its second Chamber Music Society concert at Alice Tully Hall, the Emerson gives the New York premiere of acclaimed British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Shroud (co-commissioned by CMS).

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Also in October, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has programmed two celebratory concerts at Alice Tully Hall, plus appearances on tour with CMS at the Harris Theater in Chicago and SUNY Purchase’s Performing Arts Center. In the words of Gramophone Magazine, “They have achieved – and maintain - their exalted place in the hierarchy of American quartets for good reason: at this point in their career, the Emerson’s members understand as second nature the importance of clarifying the specific character of individual phrases and balancing them all into an elegant whole, and they can turn on a dime to create quicksilver variations of mood.”Īfter recent engagements together at the Kennedy Center and Tanglewood, illustrious soprano Renée Fleming joins the Emerson at Walt Disney Concert Hall in October, performing works by Alban Berg and Egon Wellesz from their first collaborative recording, released by Decca in fall of 2015. The Emerson Quartet continues to perform with the same benchmark integrity, energy and commitment that it has demonstrated since it was formed in 1976, and its 40th Anniversary season reflects all aspects of the Quartet’s venerable artistry with high-profile projects and collaborations, commissions and recordings. The 2016-17 season marks the Emerson String Quartet’s 40th Anniversary - a major milestone for this ground-breaking ensemble, named “America’s greatest quartet” by TIME Magazine, which has earned its place in the pantheon of the classical music world.

Sibelius string quartets gramophone review