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EBÈNE QUARTET
Pierre Colombet, violin
Gabriel Le Magadure, violin
Mathieu Herzog, viola
Raphaël Merlin, cello
Named, in 2009, “Newcomer of the Year” by BBC Music Magazine, the Ebène Quartet has very quickly joined the top ranks of string quartets. A debut tour of the U.S., participation in the recent Haydn cycle at London’s Wigmore Hall, appearances throughout Europe, and a multi-award winning CD have brought it considerable and enthusiastic notice within the span of only a few years.
The young French musicians share an interest in other genres of music – including jazz, pop, soul and rock – that has found expression in their most recent recording, Fiction. Its eclectic mix of jazz standards, popular songs, and themes from film scores is the model for the second half of the Ebène’s concert program. Moving from the intensity of Mozart’s Quartet in D Minor to the gentle lyricism of the famous “Notturno” in Borodin’s second String Quartet and ending with exuberant improvisations and arrangements of popular songs, the group reveals “the other Ebène” and the impressive range of its talents.
“Their performance …was a riot of nuance, sometimes raptly lyrical and sometimes swingingly rhythmic…the Ebène revealed that they don’t take themselves too seriously. They seem bound for greatness all the same.”
Alex Ross, The New Yorker
