Carter Enyeart

Carter Enyeart is an American cellist, chamber musician, and music teacher.

Enyeart graduated from the Eastman School of Music with honors. He was then a musician in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and later Principal Cellist in the Dallas Opera Orchestra . From 1976 he was a member of the Philadelphia String Quartet for several years . He then taught at Ball State University , where he founded the American Piano Trio .

Enyeart taught cello for two years at Northwestern University and then moved to the College of Music at the University of North Texas for eleven years . There he became a member of the contemporary music group Voices of Change with which he performed with Richard Crumb in Caracas and at the International Festival for New Music in Riga. He also became a member of the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth , whose artistic direction he took over and with whom he organized concerts with Robert Davidovici , among others . Eventually he received the professorship in cello at the University of Missouri-Kansas City . Among others, the cellists Igor Sarmientos , Sascha Groschang and Noah Seitz are students of Enyeart.

Enyeart's chamber music partners include the pianists Jon Nakamatsu , Ilya Itin , Antonio Pompa-Baldi , Robert Weirich , André-Michel Schub , José Feghali , Katia Skanavi , Naida Cole , Alexander Shtarkman , Alexei Sultanow and Joseph Banowetz , the violinists Benny Kim , Mark Peskanov , Michael Shih and Charles Wetherbee , the violists Alan Iglitzin , Paul Coletti , Richard O'Neill , Scott Lee and Susan Dubois , the cellists Eric Kim , Clancy Newman and Jennifer Culp and the double bass player Gary Karr .

On trips to China and Taiwan he performed with the pianist Vivien Liu and gave master classes at several music schools. In 2001 he gave the Asian premiere of Chen Yi's Sound of the Five with the T'an Quartet in Singapore , and at the International Electroacustic Music Festival 2005 in Havana he gave the world premiere of Orlando Jacinto García's composition Mixtura . He played Chen Yi's suite for cello and chamber orchestra at the 2014 Festival of Modern Music in Beijing, and his first recording of the work was released in 2015 on the Naxos label.

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SURNAME	Enyeart, Carter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American cellist, chamber musician and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1976