The Tryon Concert Association will present the first concert of the 2012/2013 season, the Emerson String Quartet, on Friday, Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. at the Tryon Fine Arts Center.
The Emerson String Quartet stands alone in the history of string quartets with an unparalleled list of achievements over three decades: more than 30 acclaimed recordings since 1987, nine Grammy Awards (including two for best classical album), three Gramophone Awards and the coveted Avery Fisher Prize.
The quartet was formed in 1976 and took its name from the great American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer alternate in the first chair position and are joined by violist Lawrence Dutton and cellist David Finckel. The quartet, based in New York City, has collaborated in concerts and on recordings with some of the greatest artists of recent time.
Along with the Tryon Fine Arts Center, the quartet’s recent schedule has included performances at Ravinia, Caramoor, Interlochen, Tanglewood and the Aspen music festivals as well as Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Ore.
Throughout its history, the Emerson String Quartet has garnered an international reputation for groundbreaking chamber music projects and correlated recordings. In 1988, the quartet attracted national attention with the presentation of the six Bartók quartets in a single evening for its Carnegie Hall debut. For the concert in Tryon, the quartet will be playing a strongly traditional program consisting of Haydn’s Opus 20, #4, Dvorak’s D Minor Quartet and Brahms’ String Quartet #2 in A Minor.
Visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGecTrhNzG4 to see a short video of the quartet performing the third movement, allegro non troppo, from Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet no. 3, from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
To secure tickets for the 2012/2013 season of concerts sponsored by the Tryon Concert Association, call 828-859-6065 or write to P.O. Box 32, Tryon, N.C. 28782.
– article submitted
by Kevin Brode