Cellist exits top French quartet

Cellist exits top French quartet

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norman lebrecht

January 31, 2024

Sixteen months after he broke his elbow, the cellist Raphaël Merlin has ended his 24-year career in the Quatuor Ebène, one of the world’s elite ensembles.

They have replaced him with the Japanese soloist, Yuya Okamoto, who is not yet 30.

Merlin will focus now on conducting.

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