Chamber & Recital

Vega Quartet with ASO concertmaster David Coucheron standing in as first violin. (video frame capture)
Vega Quartet with ASO concertmaster David Coucheron standing in as first violin. (video frame capture)

Review: Three chamber concerts offer varied virtual experiences

Mark Gresham | 24 SEP 2020 Nothing is like a live performance, of course, but when pandemic or simple distance says you can’t have that, video has become the closest simulacrum for most people these days, providing both visual […]

Rainer Eudeikis, principal cellist of the Atlanta Symphony Orcehstra, makes his ECMSA debut in a live-streamed performance with pianist with William Ransom. (Source: video capture)
Rainer Eudeikis, principal cellist of the Atlanta Symphony Orcehstra, makes his ECMSA debut in a live-streamed performance with pianist with William Ransom. (Source: video capture)

Review: ECMSA picks up where it left off with Beethoven celebration in live-streamed-only kickoff to 2020-21 season

Mark Gresham | 11 SEP 2020 Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta (ECMSA) opened its 2020-21 season today in virtual mode with an all-Beethoven program performed by violinist Helen Hwaya Kim, cellist Rainer Eudeikis and pianist William Ransom. The […]

2019 Rapido! winner Brian Raphael Nabors (left) with Todd Skitch, Ted Gurch and Brad Ritchie of the Atlanta Chamber Players. (credit Greg Mooney)
2019 Rapido! winner Brian Raphael Nabors (left) with Todd Skitch, Ted Gurch and Brad Ritchie of the Atlanta Chamber Players. (credit Greg Mooney)

Rapido! Composition Contest announces national finalists

Five composers chosen for live final round of national contest EarRelevant Staff | 9 SEP 2020 The Atlanta Chamber Players announced this morning that finalists for Cycle Six the Rapido!® 14-Day National Composition Contest have been chosen. The five […]

Yinzi Kong, viola, William Ransom, Piano. (credit: Julia Dokter)
Violist Yinzi Kong and pianist William Ransom represented ECMSA in a collective live-streamed concert in early August. (credit: Julia Dokter)

Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta announces major new gift, Board of Advisors, and 2020-21 season

EarRelevant Staff | 8 SEP 2020 These are difficult times for most music organizations, but Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta (ECMSA), the largest organization of its kind in the Southeast, bucks that trend with the announcement of two […]

Un quartetto in maschera: Peachtree String Quartet at Atklanta Botanical Gardens. (photo: Mark Gresham)
Un quartetto in maschera: Peachtree String Quartet at Atklanta Botanical Gardens. (photo: Mark Gresham)

Review: Peachtree String Quartet at Atlanta Botanical Garden

Mark Gresham | 04 SEP 2020 Thursday”s day-long fair weather was a good omen for the Peachtree String Quartet (violinists Christopher Pulgram and Sissi Yuqing Zhang, violist Yang-Yoon Kim and cellist Thomas Carpenter), which performed a 55-minute concert that […]