University of Florida Performing Arts

Seeing the Ebène Quartet perform live is “…an exciting, almost life-changing event.”  To read more of Melvin Kaplan’s letter about the Ebène Quartet’s concert in Washington, D.C., click here.

Program
Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1
Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1 (Razumovsky No. 1)
Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131

This performance is a part of a two-season Beethoven Cycle.  Begun during the 2007-08 Season, the Beethoven Cycle is a series of concerts that will present some of the best musicians in the world performing Beethoven’s string quartets.  The American String Quartet will perform Sunday, October 12 and the Ying Quartet will perform Sunday, January 11. 

To hear an audio clip of the Ebène Quartet, click play:

About the Ebène Quartet
The Ebène Quartet is considered one of the very best young quartets in the world. 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 and 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 and many other places in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, the United-Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland and the United-States.

In June 2006, the Ebène Quartet was admitted to the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme.  In 2004, the Quartet received 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 Ebène Quartet 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 Philharmonic Chamber Music Hall, Mozarteum in Salzburg, La Pergola in Florence, Ferrara Musica and 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 and the Lindsay Quartet.

The Ebène Quartet 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 such as la Roque d’Anthéron, Jazz à Vienne and the Vannes Jazz Festival.  The Ebène Quartet 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). Following the success of their live Haydn CD (Mirare – Harmonia Mundi February 2006), the Ebène Quartet released a Bartok CD featuring the composer’s first three quartets (March 2007).  Since November 2006, the Ebène Quartet has been offered a residence at Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris.

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