The Emerson String Quartet – Farewell Tour
AMELIA ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS:
The Emerson String Quartet – Farewell Tour
Saturday, January 28th, at 7:30 PM at the Amelia Plantation Chapel
The 22nd season of the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival continues with the Emerson String Quartet – Farewell Tour. For more than four decades, the Emerson String Quartet has maintained its status as one of the world’s premier chamber music ensembles. The Quartet will perform on Saturday, January 28th at 7:30 p.m. at the Amelia Plantation Chapel.
This Quartet is comprised of Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violin; Lawrence Dutton, viola; and Paul Watkins, cello. The program is scheduled to include Haydn: Op. 33, No. 5 in G major, Mendelssohn: Op. 12 in E-flat major, and following an intermission, Mendelssohn: Op. 59, No. 2 in E minor. Tickets for this concert and the entire Festival season can be purchased at www.aicmf.org or by calling 904.261.1779.
More About the Emerson String Quartet
The Emerson String 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. The Quartet collaborates with some of today’s most esteemed composers to premiere new works, keeping the string quartet form alive and relevant. The Boston Globe hails the quartet noting, “The Emerson performances represent(ed) an extraordinary fusion of experience and authority with audacity and freshness.”
The group has partnered in performance with such stellar soloists as Renée Fleming, Barbara Hannigan, Evgeny Kissin, Emanuel Ax, and Yefim Bronfman, to name a few. In the 2022 season, the Quartet gave the New York premiere of André Previn’s “Penelope” at Carnegie Hall, alongside soprano Renée Fleming, actress Uma Thurman, and pianist Simone Dinnerstein, before reprising the program in a concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Formed in 1976 and based in New York City, the Emerson String Quartet was one of the first quartets to have its violinists alternate in the first chair position. The Quartet, which takes its name from the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, balances busy performing careers with a commitment to teaching and serves as Quartet-in-Residence at Stony Brook University.