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QUATUOR EBENE (String quartet)

Pierre Colombet : violin ;
Gabriel Le Magadure : violin ;
Mathieu Herzog : alto ;
Raphaël Merlin : violoncello ;

“Interpreters of rare understanding and communicative flair”   The Strad 

Mastery, elegance, density, complicity, spirit, are words that regularly come back about Quatuor  Ebène, now considered one of the very best young quartets worldwide. In the upcoming seasons, the quartet will take part, among other prestigious engagements, in a Haydn cycle at London’s Wigmore Hall, with the Emerson, Hagen, Arcanto quartets in 2008-09. They will also celebrate the Haydn year at Brussel’s Palais des Beaux-Arts and will perform in the near future in such other venues as Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Rotterdam’s De Doelen, Zurich’s Tonhalle, Vienna’s Musikverein, the City of London Festival, Gstaad’s Menuhin Festival, Frankfurt’s Alte Oper… and many other places in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, the United-Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, the United-States, Japan, ….”

In June 2006, Quatuor Ebène was admitted to the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme.  In 2004, the quartet waltzed off with the First Prize of the prestigious ARD Competition in Munich in 2004, as well as the Audience Prize, two Prizes for the best interpretation and the Karl Klinger Foundation Prize. The Quatuor Ebène are also recipients of both the Fondation Groupe Banque Populaire award and more recently the Belmont Prize for Contemporary Music by the Forberg-Schneider Foundation.

 The quartet has already been invited to perform in many festivals and concert venues throughout the world including Théâtre du Châtelet, Wigmore Hall, The City of London Festival,  Washington’s Corcoran and Library of Congress, Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, Berlin Philharmony Chamber Music Hall, Mozarteum in Salzburg, La Pergola in Florence, Ferrara Musica, Vilabertran’s Schubertiada in Spain,  …

Chamber music partners include internationally-renowned musicians such as Michel Dalberto, Frank Braley, Nicolai Lugansky, Alexandre Tharaud, Gary Hoffman, François Salque, Michel Portal, Eric Le Sage, Paul Meyer, Patricia Petibon, the Lindsay Quartet ...

The Quatuor Ebène is distinguished by its open-mindedness and versatility. Displaying equal facility in the classical repertoire and contemporary music, the quartet also performs jazz concerts in renowned jazz venues ( la Roque d’Anthéron, Jazz à Vienne, Vannes Jazz Festival,…)

The Quatuor Ebène has recorded a live Haydn CD (Mirare, Harmonia Mundi) which was released in February 2006. The CD was unanimously praised worldwide (Album of the Month in The Strad). They will a Bartok CD in March 2007.

The Ebène Quartet is supported by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust  Borletti-Buitoni Trust.

Since november 2006, Quatuor Ebene has been offered a residence at fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris.

 

 

Following the success of their live Haydn CD (Mirare – Harmonia Mundi february 2006) Quatuor Ebenerelease in march 2007 a Bartok CD featuring the composer’s first three quartets.