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Emerson String Quartet
American string quartet
The Emerson String Quartet, also known as the Emerson Quartet,[1] was an American string quartet initially formed as a student group at the Juilliard School in 1976.
It was named for American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson and began touring professionally in 1976.[2] The ensemble taught in residence at The Hartt School in the 1980s and is currently the quartet in residence at Stony Brook University.[3] Both of the founding violinists studied with Oscar Shumsky at Juilliard, and the two alternated as first and second violinists for the group.
The Emerson Quartet was one of the first such ensembles with the two violinists alternating chairs.[4]
The Emerson Quartet was inducted into the Classical Music Hall of Fame in 2010.[5] As of May 2014[update], they had released more than thirty albums and won nine Grammy Awards, as well as the prestigious Avery Fishe