Emerson String Quartet

Cuarteto de cuerdas

Emerson String Quartet is a renowned New York–based string quartet in residence at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Previously the Quartet was in residence at The Hartt School. Formed in 1976, they have released more than twenty albums and won eight Grammy Awards. Both violinists in the quartet were students of the noted violinist Oscar Shumsky. Formed in the bicentennial year of the United States, the Emerson String Quartet took its name from the great American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Violinists Drucker and Setzer alternate as first and second violinists.






Emerson String Quartet


Eugene Drucker, Violine


Philip Setzer, Violine


Lawrence Dutton, Viola


David Finckel, Violoncello