Eric Abramovitz, clarinet with TSO Strings

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A special treat! Eric has created a program for clarinet and string quartet, featuring four of his Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) colleagues.

He has been TSO’s principal clarinet since 2021. A Montreal native, he was named CBC Next! artist in 2013, Vandoren Emerging Artist of the year in 2017, and was a Sylva Gelber Career Grant recipient in 2016.

Eric has been featured as a soloist with numerous orchestras including the l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec, and the NAC Orchestra. Joining Eric are his colleagues Luri Lee and Kun Yan on violins, Rémi Pelletier on viola, and Lucia Ticho on cello.

The program will feature Gershwin, Bartok, Ravel clarinet arrangements along with the virtuosic von Weber Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 34.