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Rose Ann Carr Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor |
Since graduation from the Eastman School of Music “with distinction”, Carter Enyeart has enjoyed has enjoyed a distinguished and varied musical career as teacher, soloist, orchestra player and chamber musician. He was cellist of the world renowned Philadelphia String Quartet, the American Piano Trio, Quartet Chicago, the Rasumovsky Piano Trio and was for many years cellist and Associate Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth. Faculty positions at Ball State University, Northwestern University and the University of North Texas preceded his current appointment as the Rose Ann Carr Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor of Cello at the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he teaches cello, coordinates the string chamber music program and directs the annual Kansas City Cello Clinic each June. M. Enyeart has achieved an enviable record of success as a teacher of fine young cellists, having sent students on to Cleveland Institute, Manhattan, Eastman, Rice, Juilliard, New England Conservatory and Boston University. They are praised for their musicality, sound production and solid technical foundation.
Mr. Enyeart has presented recitals and master classes at the major conservatories of China during three invited visits there in 1991, 1999 and 2007. He returned to Asia in November 2005 to teach and perform at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and to perform as guest artist with the T’ang Quartet in Singapore. During a five week stay in China in May and June of 2007, he served as guest professor of chamber music and cello at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, Xinghai Conservatory in Guangzhou, Shanghai Conservatory and the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts presenting a solo recital at each school. Past master classes have been presented at The University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Indiana Cello Day, Roosevelt University (Chicago), University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Taiwan’s Tung-Hai and Soochow Universities. He has also presented sessions and master classes at the 2006 American String Teachers National Conference, and at the Texas Music Educators Conference and Missouri Music Educators Conferences.
Two world premiere CDs on the Centaur label have received critical acclaim. His performance of the Muczynski Cello Sonata was described by Walter Simmons in Fanfare Magazine as "…an extraordinary performance…a reading of unerring precision and blistering intensity."