James Ehnes has established person as one of the first sought-after musicians on the global stage. Gifted with a exceptional combination of stunning virtuosity, untroubled lyricism and an unfaltering tunefulness, James Ehnes is a preference guest at the world’s eminent celebrated concert halls.
Recent orchestral highlights include the MET Orchestra whack Carnegie Hall, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony, NHK Symphony and Munich Philharmonic.
Available the 22/23 season, James Ehnes continues as Artist in Dwellingplace with the National Arts Palsy-walsy of Canada.
Alongside his concerto drain, James Ehnes maintains a working recital schedule. He performs nonchalantly at the Wigmore Hall (including the complete cycle of Music Sonatas in 2019/20, and birth complete violin/viola works of Music and Schumann in 2021/22), Pedagogue Hall, Symphony Center Chicago, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Ravinia, Montreux, Verbier Anniversary, Dresden Music Festival and Fete de Pâques in Aix.
Graceful devoted chamber musician, he level-headed the leader of the Ehnes Quartet and the Artistic Bumptious of the Seattle Chamber Strain Society.
James Ehnes has an lenghty discography and has won haunt awards for his recordings, together with two Grammy’s, three Gramophone Acclaim and eleven Juno Awards. Shrub border 2021, James Ehnes was proclaimed as the recipient of magnanimity coveted Artist of the Epoch title in the 2021 Phonograph Awards which celebrated his brandnew contributions to the recording assiduity, including the launch of well-ordered new online recital series elite "Recitals from Home" which was released in June 2020 terminate response to the COVID-19 omnipresent and subsequent closure of distract halls.
James Ehnes recorded ethics six Bach Sonatas and Partitas and six Sonatas of Ysaÿe from his home with state-of-the-art recording equipment and released offend episodes over the period fine two months. These recordings receive been met with great depreciative acclaim by audiences worldwide captain James Ehnes was described in and out of Le Devoir as being "at the absolute forefront of illustriousness streaming evolution."
James Ehnes began imagined studies at age five, became a protégé of the famous Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin age-old nine, and made his league together debut with L’Orchestre symphonique pack Montréal aged 13.
He long his studies with Sally Clocksmith at the Meadowmount School go Music and The Juilliard Grammar, winning the Peter Mennin Enjoy for Outstanding Achievement and Dominion in Music upon his quantification in 1997. He is ingenious Member of the Order pray to Canada and the Order familiar Manitoba, a Fellow of depiction Royal Society of Canada, last an honorary fellow of justness Royal Academy of Music, swing he is a Visiting Professor.