These four French musicians have class and are perhaps the most creative ensemble on the international chamber music scene today. No other quartet moves with such ease and enthusiasm between different styles. With the Ebènes, whenever they create a new work, it is always with taste and integrity. Nevertheless, the quartet’s traditional repertoire does not suffer in any way from its love of Jazz.

The Quatuor Ebène has studied extensively with the Ysaye Quartet in Paris as well as with the eminent Gábor Takács, Eberhard Feltz and György Kurtág. Since its dramatic 2004 triumph at the prestigious ARD international competition in Munich, where the quartet was also awarded five additional special prizes, the Ebènes have gone on to win the Forberg- Schneider Foundation’s Belmont Prize in 2005, which has very generously arranged to have the quartet outfitted with several unique Italian instruments, on loan to the quartet members from private owners.

The Quatuor Ebène has grown to become one of today’s foremost quartets on the international scene. The quartet has been heard throughout the most prestigious concert halls of Europe, Canada and the United States, including Wigmore Hall London, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Berliner Philharmonie and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

2009 marked the beginning of an especially fruitful collaboration with the Virgin Classics label. The quartet’s Debussy, Ravel and Fauré recording was awarded several prizes (“Chamber Music Record of the Year” by ECHO-Klassik, fff Télérama award, “choc” Monde de la Musique, “Recording of the Year” by Gramophone). A Jazz and World Music album, entitled Fiction, was released in Fall 2010. The Ebènes received an Echo Award and nearly hit the top of the charts! For a CD featuring string quartets (KV 421, KV 465) and Divertimento KV 138 ofMozart as wekk as a CD box with the chamber music of Fauré together with partners the quartet received an Echo Award in 2012.

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