Arturs Ezergailis
Arturs Ezergailis was born in 1957 in Adelaide. He took cello lessons with James Whitehead and later with Kurt Hess. For three years he was a cellist with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and was soloist in the Saint-Saens cello concerto. For two years he was a member of the Adelaide String Quartet.
From 1980 to 1985 he furthered his studies in Switzerland under Stanislov Apolin (Prague) and Marek Jerie, completing a performance diploma with distinction in 1984. In the same year he was awarded the Edwin Fischer Prize. He was a member of the Festival Strings Lucerne under Rudolph Baumgartner, touring through Western and Eastern Europe as well as China and Japan. In 1985 Arturs returned to Australia to take up a position in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular performer at Music-in-the-Round and has been active in chamber music with prominent musicians such as Marc Neikrug, Jean-Bernard Pommier and Pinchas Zukerman. He is a member of the Chagall Ensemble.
Performing as Melbourne String Quartet
The Melbourne String Quartet has appeared in various guises over the years. One group formed in 1973 and another in 1994.
Torquing Points
An exciting juxtaposition of 20th-century Australian and 19th-century European styles. Gordon Kerry's Torquing Points for String Quartet and Mark Pollard's The Quick or the Dead sit approachably beside the classical works on this programme.
Arturs Ezergailis also appears on
Exposé
This album spans nearly a quarter of a century of Peter Tahourdin’s chamber music, from 1971 to 1995. The works chart his compositional metamorphosis and draw on a wide range of influences and themes, from the structural procedures of Indian raga to texts from the Carmina Burana.