Quatuor Ebène

Within ten years of forming, the Quatuor Ebène transformed from a talented but youthful and virtually unknown string quartet to an extremely respected ensemble having a prestigious saving deal and a touring schedule that included regular performances at main concert locations across European countries and THE UNITED STATES. Indeed, and its own dabbling into crossover repertory on the way offers hardly harm its rise, and its own capability to vocalize sometimes has also put into its recognition and uniqueness. But that uniqueness doesn’t end there: the crossover fare is normally performed in plans created by the Quatuor Ebène players, agreements often sourced in film music which have attracted much acclaim because of their imagination and workmanship. The group’s undertake the rating from Pulp Fiction as well as the melody Roads of Philadelphia, from Philadelphia, are two types of popular crossover strikes. But it may be the ensemble’s traditional side which has gained it its ideal successes, specifically in shows of functions by Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, Borodin, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, Bartók, and ratings of others. Quatuor Ebène provides documented for such brands as EMI/Virgin Classics and EuroArts. The Quatuor Ebène produced in 1999 when the players had been students on the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory. The associates from the ensemble are: Pierre Colombet and Gabriel Le Magadure, violins; Mathieu Herzog, viola; and Raphaël Merlin, cello. The ensemble continued to be relatively small known until recording first prize on the 2004 ARD International Competition in Munich. Groundbreaking simply because that was, the Quatuor Ebène added icing towards the cake the next year using the 2005 Belmont Award in the Forberg-Schneider Base. In 2006, the quartet performed within the BBC’s New Era Artists system. That same calendar year it produced its first documenting, a disk of three Haydn quartets, in the Mirare label. From 2007, the Quatuor Ebène have already been regularly touring European countries, the U.S., and Canada. In 2008 the ensemble produced its first documenting under a fresh association with Virgin Classics, a disk from the quartets by Debussy, Fauré, and Ravel that could go on to get this year’s 2009 Gramophone prize for Record of the entire year. Quatuor Ebène’s initial all-crossover record was released by Virgin Classics this year 2010, a disk that featured agreements of such quantities as Somewhere Within the Rainbow and Roads of Philadelphia, with extra performers Natalie Dessay, Richard Héry, while others. The ensemble’s occupied tours possess included France, Germany, Ireland, Britain, and america. In January 2015, Adrien Boisseau overran the violist’s seat from Herzog, who remaining to do even more conducting.