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"Enyeart played the solo G Major Bach Suite with the style, tone, and phrasing of a cellist born to play Bach."
Melinda Bargreen
The Seattle Times
"... a stellar cello premiere. The performance (David Dzubay Sonata) seemed to me a model of clarity and intent."
John Ardoin
Dallas Morning News
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biography
Since graduation from the Eastman School of Music "with Distinction" and the Artists Certificate, Carter Enyeart has enjoyed a varied and distinguished musical career. His early orchestral positions were with the Pittsburgh and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras and later as Principal Cellist of the Dallas Opera. He was invited to join the world renowned Philadelphia String Quartet in 1976 and performed all over the world with that ensemble for 6 seasons to critical acclaim. His chamber music career continued at his first teaching post at Ball State University (Indiana) where he was a founding member of the American Piano Trio. Following two years at Northwestern University where he coached string chamber music and taught cello, Enyeart was appointed to the faculty of the College of Music at The University of North Texas where he remained for eleven years. There, he joined the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth as cellist and later assumed the post of Associate Artistic Director and still holds that position today, performing a seven concert season with violinist Robert Davidovici and some of the top pianists in the music world. In Dallas he also performed as a member of the contemporary music group Voices of Change and toured with them to Caracas, Venezuela with George Crumb and to the International New Music Festival in Riga, Latvia.
In his current position as the Rose Ann Carr Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor of Cello at the Conservatory of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Mr. Enyeart also serves as Coordinator of String Chamber Music. He is director of the annual Kansas City Cello Clinic (www.umkc.edu/conservatory/cmda) each June for young cellists from across America. He has served on the faculties of Ball State University, Northwestern University and the University of North Texas, the Weathersfield Music Festival in Vermont, the Milwaukee Chamber Music Festival, and the San Diego Chamber Music Workshop. He is a regular performer at the Olympic Music Festival near Seattle and is a member of the Rasumovsky Piano Trio with violinist Robert Davidovici and pianist Kemal Gekic.
His partners in chamber music have included pianists Jon Nakamatsu, Ilya Itin, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Robert Weirich, Andre Michel Schub, Jose Feghali, Katia Skanavi, Naida Cole, Alexander Shtarkman and Alexei Sultanov and Joseph Banowetz. Violinists have included Benny Kim, Mark Peskanov, Michael Shih, Charles Wetherbee and violists Alan Iglitzin, Paul Coletti, Richard O'Neill and Scott Lee and Susan Dubois. Cello partners have included Eric Kim, Clancy Newman and Jennifer Culp. He partnered with bassist Gary Karr for the Rossini Duo. Enyeart has made two invited trips to China to teach and perform at the major conservatories, and has made two similar trips to Taiwan, playing a sold-out recital in the National Concert Hall with pianist Vivien Liu, and presenting master classes at the major music schools. In May, 2001 he performed the Asian premiere of "Sound of the Five" by Chen Yi with the T'ang Quartet in Singapore and repeated it later in a tour of the Midwest. In March 2005, he presented the world premiere of Mixtura by Orlando Jacinto Garcia at the International Electroacoustic Music Festval in Havana. He will return to Singapore in November 2005 to perform the Schubert Quintet with the T'ang Quartet and to play recitals with Robert Weirich in Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong.
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