Born in Rimini, Enrico Pacehe studied with Franco Scala at the Pesaro Conservatory, where he also graduated in composition and orchestra conducting. He specialized at the International Piano Academy "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola. His precious mentor was later the Belgian teacher Jacques de Tiège. After winning the First Prize at the Franz Liszt International Competition in Utrecht in 1989, Enrico Pace performed throughout Europe in renowned concert halls: Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Herkulessaal in Munich, Philharmonie in Berlin.He has been invited to play in numerous international festivals, including Lucerne, Salzburg, Edinburgh, La Roque d'Anthéron, Rheingau and the Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo.Much appreciated as a soloist, he performs with prestigious orchestras, such as the Royal Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, Münchner Philharmoniker, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma, MDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Camerata Salzburg, and Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. He has collaborated with numerous conductors, such as Roberto Benzi, Gianandrea Noseda, Zoltán Kocsis, Kazimirz Kord, Mark Elder, Lawrence Foster, Janos Fürst, David Robertson, Vassily Sinaisky, Stanislav Skrowaczewski, Bruno Weil, Walter Weller and Antoni Wit.
Winner of the 50th edition of the Prague Spring International Music Competition in 1998, the Prometheus Quartethe was also awarded the Bärenreiter Special Prize for the best performance faithful to the original text of Mozart's K 590 Quartet, the City of Prague Prize for best quartet and the Pro Harmonia Mundi Prize. In 1998 the Prometeo Quartet was "ensemble in residence" of the Britten Pears Academy in Aldeburgh and, in 1999, received the "Thomas Infeld" prize from the Internationale Sommer Akademie Prag-Wien-Budapest for "extraordinary interpretative skills for a composition by chamber repertoire for strings"; furthermore, he was second in the Concours International de Quatuors in Bordeaux. In 2000 he was again awarded the Bärenreiter Special Prize at the ARD Competition in Munich. In 2012 he received the Silver Lion at the Venice Music Biennale. was invited,
He has collaborated with musicians such as Mario Brunello, David Geringas, Veronika Hagen, Alexander Lonquich, Enrico Pace, Stefano Scodanibbio, Quartetto Belcea, Enrico Bronzi, Mariangela Vacatello, Antonii Baryshevskyi, Lilya Zilberstein.
The artistic relationship with the composers Salvatore Sciarrino, Ivan Fedele and Stefano Gervasoni is particularly intense. The Quartet has recorded for the ECM, Sony and Brilliant labels.
Since 2013 he has been "quartet in residence" at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena in collaboration with the composition class of Salvatore Sciarrino.
The Prometeo Quartet teaches as part of the "Casa del quartetto" project (2018), promoted by the Fondazione i Teatri del Festival Borciani in Reggio Emilia. The Quartet is characterized by its interpretative and intellectual capacity, as well as communication with the public not only in the traditional repertoire but also in contemporary music.
