Cooke Noontime Concerts: Season Opener
Free
- Vega Quartet
- Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin
- Charae Krueger, cello
- William Ransom, piano
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — String Sextet in D minor, Op. 70 "Souvenir de Florence"
Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta (ECMSA) opens their 32nd season with Mozart’s dramatic Piano Quartet in G Minor and Tchaikovsky’s thrilling Souvenir de Florence, String Sextet in D Minor, op. 70, performed by the Vega Quartet, pianist William Ransom, and Atlanta favorites cellist Charae Kruger and violist Yinzi Kong. Amy Moretti, violin, is also featured.
The John and Linda Cooke Noontime Series are free events presented throughout the year at noon on Fridays.
Recommended parking for Schwartz Center events is the Fishburne Parking Deck
About Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta
Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta is the Southeast’s largest and most active chamber music organization brings together some of the city's finest resident musicians with internationally-known performers who are dedicated to performing the most delightful, exciting, and interesting music from the chamber repertoire in some of the most acoustically and visually beautiful spaces in Atlanta.
https://chambermusicsociety.emory.edu/About Vega Quartet
The Vega String Quartet, Quartet-in-Residence at Emory University, is cultivating a new generation of chamber music lovers through dynamic performances and innovative community engagement. The New York Times raved that "[the Quartet's] playing had a kind of clean intoxication to it, pulling the listener along…the musicians took real risks in their music making" and the L.A. Times praised their "triumphant L.A. debut." They concertize both nationally and internationally. The Quartet's major performing projects at Emory have included performing the complete cycle of Beethoven quartets, as well as pairing Bach's complete works for solo violin, viola, and cello with the six Bartók quartets. They have also developed a series of "Jazz Meets Classics" programs, bringing the two genres together.
http://www.vegaquartet.com/About Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin
Amy Schwartz Moretti has a distinguished musical career of broad versatility. Since 2007, she has been Director of the McDuffie Center for Strings and has developed the Fabian Concert Series; she also holds the Caroline Paul King Chair, teaching in the Mercer University Townsend School of Music. A performing artist with an affinity for chamber music, she enjoys touring with the Ehnes Quartet and maintains an active schedule of solo, chamber and concertmaster appearances. Recent performances include the 2019 premiere of Schmitz's Violin Concerto written for her. Her other festival appearances this summer include Bridgehampton, ChamberFest Cleveland, La Jolla, Meadowmount, and Manchester Music Festival. Moretti is former concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony and Florida Orchestra. She has served as guest concertmaster for the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Houston, Pittsburgh; the New York Pops and Hawaii Pops; and the festival orchestras of Brevard, Colorado and Grand Teton. The Cleveland Institute of Music has recognized her with an Alumni Achievement Award and she is the 2014 San Francisco Conservatory of Music Fanfare Honoree. In December 2018, Moretti was selected as one of Musical America's "Top 30 Professionals of the Year."
http://www.amyschwartzmoretti.com/Emerson Concert Hall at Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
1700 N Decatur RdAtlanta, GA 30307
United States