イザイ弦楽四重奏団 Ysaye Quartet
The Ysaye Quartet (Quatuor Ysaye) is a French string quartet that was founded in 1984 by students at the Paris Conservatoire named after the original Ysaye Quartet.
Its current members are:
Guillaume Sutre (violin) (previously Christophe Giovaninetti)
Luc-Marie Aguera (violin) (previously Romano Tommasini)
Miguel da Silva (viola)
Yovan Markovitch (cello) (previously Carlos Dourthe, then Michel Poulet, then Marc Coppey, then Francois Salque)
The ensemble undertook studies with members of the Amadeus Quartet in Cologne from 1986 to 1989. It won prizes at competitions in Trapani (2nd), Portsmouth (2nd) and Evian (1st). The quartet has won admiration for its recordings of the quartets of Debussy and Ravel, and, with pianist Pascal Roge, of the quintets of Faure. The quartet teaches at CNR in Paris and gives masterclasses in the mountain city of Flaine in France.
The Ysaye Quartet has announced on its website that it will put an end to its 30-year career in January 2014.
イザイ弦楽四重奏団の名称は、バイオリン奏者・作曲家イザイが1886年の創設にちなんで名付けられた。