Quatuor Ebène
Recognized as one of France's leading string quartets, Quatuor Ébène - also
known as the Ébène Quartet - was formed in 1999 by former students of the
Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory: Pierre Colombet (first violin), Gabriel Le
Magadure (second violin), Mathieu Herzog (viola), and Matthieu Fontana (cello),
who was later replaced in 2002 by Raphaël Merlin. In their early years, the
quartet’s members studied with the Quatuor Ysaÿe at the Conservatoire National
Supérieur de Paris, and also studied under violinist Gábor Takács-Nagy and
composer György Kurtág in Hungary. Tied for sec...
