With a 2010 Grammy nomination for "Best Chamber Music Performance," the Enso String Quartet has quickly become one of the country's most accomplished young ensembles. Shortly after the group's inception at Yale University in 1999, Enso had success at the Banff International String Quartet Competition and won the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and has consistently received high praise for performances ever since. The quartet's debut recording was described by Strad Magazine as "an auspicious start to their recording career," and was followed by the recent Grammy-nominated release of the quartets of Ginastera. MusicWeb International summed up this album as "playing of jaw-dropping prowess revealing masterpieces of the 20th century quartet literature ... seek out this group - they are clearly bound for greatness." The disc was selected as one of MusicWeb's Recordings of the Year for 2009.
Jul-27-2010 — The Monday, July 26th, edition of Performance Today features the Enso String Quartet performance of Giacomo Puccini's Chrysanthemums from the group's performance at Da Camera of Houston in October 2009.
Naxos's recording of Ginastera's Complete Music for Cello and Piano (8.570569) was hailed for ‘the music's percussive rhythms as well as its reflective and mysterious melodic invention' by The Strad. Similarly, each of his highly individual and engaging string quartets abound in kinetic energy, glowingly evocative writing and the ever-present rhythms and sounds of his native Argentinean music. In his expressive Third String Quartet a solo soprano, fully integrated into the quartet texture,...
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Posted: Jun-1-2009
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"Fontana Chamber Arts presented the Enso String Quartet on Friday night in what can surely be deemed a significant and utterly compelling program."
