Colburn Chamber Music Society featuring Ebène Quartet October 9, 2011

Hand-selected students of the Colburn Conservatory of Music perform with young French ensemble, Ebène Quartet, recipients of the 2009 Gramophone Magazine’s Record of the Year. New York Times' Alan Kozinn hailed the ensemble as "A string quartet that can easily morph into a jazz band.” A Pre-Concert Lecture will take place at 2 PM. Program includes: Martinu's La Revue de Cuisine, Debussy's Quartet in G minor, and Schoenberg's Verklaerte Nacht Op. 4. The Quatuor Ebène has studied extensively with the Ysaye Quartet in Paris as well as with the eminent Gábor Takács, Eberhard Feltz et 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. It has since remained close to the foundation, which has very generously arranged to have the quartet outfitted with several unique Italian instruments, on loan to the quartet members from private owners. More information on the quartet on www.quatuorebene.com