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Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents the Emerson String Quartet in its farewell concert on April 15, 2023 at 7:30PM. Having spent 47 years together, and having been historical annual performers to Segerstrom’s celebrated Chamber Series, they will share their extraordinary ability as communicative artists one final time. This will surely be an experience to be celebrated and cherished.
The evening’s program includes Haydn: String Quartet Op. 33 No. 5, Bartok: String Quartet No. 2, and Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 59 No. 2.
This performance includes a pre-show talk at 6:45 pm with musicologist Dr. Byron Adams and will make for a perfect night of classical music.
Emerson String Quartet was founded in 1976 and has performed in prestigious venues across the globe. In addition, the string quartet has received nine Grammys, including Best Classical Album.
As The Times (London) says, “With musicians like this, there must be some hope for humanity.” Their inspiring and exhilarating performances bring Beethoven, Bartok, and Haydn’s music to life with vibrancy and artistic excellence that simply cannot be replicated.
Emerson String Quartet
The Emerson String Quartet will have its final season of concerts in 2022-23, disbanding after more than four decades as one of the world’s premier chamber music ensembles. “With musicians like this,” wrote a reviewer for The Times (London), “there must be some hope for humanity.” 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. As part of their larger mission to keep the string quartet form alive and relevant, they have commissioned and premiered works from some of today’s most esteemed composers and have partnered in performance with leading soloists such as Renée Fleming, Barbara Hannigan, Evgeny Kissin, Emanuel Ax, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Yefim Bronfman, James Galway, Edgar Meyer, Menahem Pressler, Leon Fleisher, André Previn, and Isaac Stern, to name a few.
The Quartet’s extensive discography includes the complete string quartets of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bartók, Webern, and Shostakovich, as well as multi-CD sets of the major works of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Dvořák.
In its final season, the Quartet will record Schoenberg’s Second Quartet with Barbara Hannigan for release in 2023, with the sessions video documented by Mathieu Amalric for a short film. Deutsche Grammophon will also reissue its box set of the Emerson Complete Recordings on the label, with two new additions.
Formed in 1976 and based in New York City, the Emerson String Quartet was one of the first quartets whose violinists alternate in the first violin 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. The Emerson String Quartet enthusiastically endorses Thomastik strings.
More information about the artists can be found here: https://www.emersonquartet.com/individual
Tickets start at $59 and are available at online at SCFTA.org, at the Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa, or by calling (714) 556-2787. For inquiries about group ticket discounts for 10 or more, call the Group Services office at (714) 755-0236.
