Tuesday, June 6th, 7:30 pm

Salle Bourgie, MBAM

Adieu Quatuor Emerson !

Prestige Event

After a 43-year career, the final live concert by the Emerson Quartet in Canada with guest artists Denis Brott, cello, and Jan Lisiecki, piano.

Tickets: $70, $90

Students $20

Artists: Quatuor Emerson (Eugene Drucker et Philip Setzer, violins, Lawrence Dutton, viola, Paul Watkins, cello), Denis Brott, cello, Jan Lisiecki, piano

After 43 seasons of concert giving the Emerson Quartet, one of the world’s premier chamber music ensembles, will be retiring in the fall of 2023. June 6th, 2023 will be the final concert at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, the last concert in Canada and your last chance to hear the Emerson Quartet live. Canada’s brilliant 27-year-old star pianist Jan Lisiecki will join the quartet to perform the beloved Dvořák Piano Quintet. Colleagues for five decades, Festival Artistic Director Denis Brott will join his friends in a performance of one of the greatest chamber works ever written, Schubert’s magnificent Quintet in C Major with two cellos.

A unique evening not to be missed!

Program:

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
String Quintet in C Major, D. 956
    Allegro ma non troppo
    Adagio
    Scherzo. Presto – Trio. Andante sostenuto
    Allegretto

Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81, B. 155
    Allegro ma non tanto
    Dumka. Andante con moto
    Scherzo (Furiant). Molto vivace – Poco tranquillo
    Finale. Allegro

Salle Bourgie

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1339 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1G2

Sponsor of the Night : Letko-Brosseau

Jan Lisiecki is sponsored by the Jane Skoryna Foundation