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Quatuor Ebène
Recognized as one of the leading French string quartets of its generation,
Quatuor Ébène was formed in 1999 by former students of the Conservatoire de
Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) Pierre Colombet (first violin), Gabriel Le
Magadure (second violin), Mathieu Herzog (viola) and Matthieu Fontana (cello),
replaced in 2002 by Raphaël Merlin. In their early years, the quartet members
studied with the Quatuor Ysaÿe at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris,
and took performance lessons with violinist Gábor Takács-Nagy and composer
György Kurtág in Hungary. Tied for second...
