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Click here for ECMSA Card 2011-2012 Season
William Ransom, Artistic Director
Now celebrating its 19th 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 numerous community-outreach activities. Education is also an integral part of the ECMSA’s
mission, and members teach throughout the University and greater
community, coach student chamber music ensembles, and give private
lessons.
The Emory Chamber Music Society presents a diverse repertoire ranging from solo repertoire to largeensemble works with a variety of instrumentation. Guest artists have included cellist Yo-Yo Ma, guitarist Eliot
Fisk, clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, pianists Christopher O’Riley,
Robert Spano and jazz great Dave Brubeck; Alan Gilbert, 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; the
complete works for solo strings by Bach; the complete Bartok string
quartets; seasons dedicated to the chamber works of Chopin, Schumann and
Liszt; and numerous world and Atlanta premieres. 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, the Humann Foundation and the
Department of Music. The Vega String Quartet residency is made possible
in part through the generous support of the Abraham J. and Phyllis Katz
Foundation and Friends of Music at Emory.
Join us as we celebrate chamber music at its best!
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