The Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta

Now celebrating its 14h season of excellence, Atlanta’s largest and most active chamber music organization brings together some of the city’s finest resident musicians with internationally-known guest artists who are dedicated to performing the most beautiful, exciting and interesting music from the chamber repertoire.  The resident professional performing group of Emory University was named "Best Chamber Music Group in Atlanta" by Atlanta Magazine and in February of 2003 moved into its permanent home in the new Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.

In addition to presenting an evening, a family, and a noontime concert series at Emory, the Society tours, participates in recording projects, the commissioning of new works, and community-outreach activities. Society members are also an integral part of the music program at Emory, coaching student chamber music ensembles, and giving private lessons.

The Emory Chamber Music Society presents a diverse repertoire ranging from duos to large ensemble works with a variety of instrumentation.  Guest artists have included cellist Yo-Yo Ma, guitarist Eliot Fisk, pianists Christopher O’Riley and Robert Spano, and members of the Tokyo, Cleveland, Lark, Fine Arts, Ciompi, Vega, Blair, Alexander and Serafin string quartets among others. Over the years the ECMSA has presented the complete string quartets, piano sonatas and works for cello and piano and violin and piano of Beethoven; the complete chamber music of Johannes Brahms; and numerous Atlanta premiers. In 1996 the Society made its New York and Boston debuts. Local and syndicated radio broadcasts—such as those on National Public Radio’s Performance Today—add to the group’s national visibility. They can be heard on ACA Recordings.

The Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta is supported by the Cherry L. Emerson Endowment, the Office of Educational Programs at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and the Department of Music. Family concerts at the Museum are made possible in part through the generous support of an anonymous donor, 100 Emory Friends of Family, and the Office of the President.

Join us as we celebrate chamber music at its best!