Over four decades, the Orion Quartet has been a fixture on the PCMS series, with 28 appearances to date. Having announced that this season will be their last, the Orion returns to Philadelphia once more to display their masterful technique and “warm, variable, and beautiful” (Strings Magazine) ensemble tone. Their farewell program concludes with Beethoven’s Op. 130/133, “one of the great artistic testaments to the human capacity for meaning in the face of chaos” (Mark Steinberg).

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Orion Quartet

American Philosophical Society

In its annual appearances with the Society, the Orion Quartet continues to display masterful technique and an ensemble tone that is “warm, variable, and beautiful” (Strings Magazine). For this collaborative performance, the Orion is joined by two PCMS favorites in Kim Kashkashian and Marcy Rosen for Brahms’s B-flat Major Sextet, a work with an astonishing wealth of melody and masterful sense of proportion.

Orion Quartet w/ Kim Kashkashian, viola & Marcy Rosen, cello

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The Orion Quartet is one of the leading chamber music ensembles on the classical music scene today. Admired for diverse programming that juxtaposes masterworks of quartet literature with key works of the 20th and 21st centuries, the Orion provides singularly rich dimension to its music-making. The members of the Orion String Quartet -- violinists Daniel Phillips and Todd Phillips, brothers who share the first violin chair equally, violist Steven Tenenbom, and cellist Timothy Eddy -- have worked closely with illustrious musicians, such as Pablo Casals, Sir Andras Schiff, Rudolf Serkin, members of the ensemble TASHI, and the Beaux Arts Trio, as well as the Budapest, Galimir, and Guarneri String Quartets. The Orion String Quartet are Artist Members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

In the upcoming 2022-2023 season, the Quartet performs Beethoven String Quartet No. 16 in a winter concert for Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and appears again with both the Phoenix Chamber Music Society and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.

Orion Quartet

Feb 25, 2024

Orion Quartet

Apr 16, 2023

Orion Quartet w/ Kim Kashkashian, viola & Marcy Rosen, cello

Orion Quartet