Awards & Winners

Emerson String Quartet

The Emerson String Quartet is a 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 thirty albums and won nine 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.

Awards by Emerson String Quartet

Check all the awards nominated and won by Emerson String Quartet.

2009


Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
Honored for : Intimate Letters
(Ensemble, Engineer/Mixer, Producer)

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance Intimate Letters

2006


Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
Honored for : Intimate Voices
(Ensemble, Producer)

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance Intimate Voices

2005


Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
Honored for : The Complete String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet)

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance The Complete String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet)

2000


Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
Honored for : String Quartets
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
Honored for : String Quartets

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance String Quartets
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album String Quartets

1997


Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
Honored for : The String Quartets

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance The String Quartets

1993


Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
Honored for : Ives: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2/Barber: String Quartet Op. 11 (American Originals)
(Artist)

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance Ives: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2/Barber: String Quartet Op. 11 (American Originals)

1989


Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
Honored for : Die 6 Streichquartette (Emerson String Quartet)
(Artist)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
Honored for : Die 6 Streichquartette (Emerson String Quartet)
(Artist, Producer)

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album Die 6 Streichquartette (Emerson String Quartet)
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance Die 6 Streichquartette (Emerson String Quartet)