Eliot Quartett

Join us in welcoming back the award-winning Eliot Quartett, based in Frankfurt. The group first performed for us in September 2023, playing a sold-out program of string quartets by Haydn, Tailleferre, and Schubert. This time, to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Shostakovich they will play an exciting program of Shostakovich and Beethoven.

Program

Dmitri Shostakovich - Quartet No. 12 in D flat Major for Strings, Op. 133

1. Moderato — Allegretto — Moderato — Allegretto — Moderato
2. Allegretto — Adagio — Moderato — Adagio — Moderato — Allegretto

Intermission

Beethoven: Quartet in A minor, Op. 132

Assai sostenuto – Allegro
Allegro ma non tanto
Molto Adagio – Andante Andante – Molto adagio – Andante–Molto adagio.
Alla Marcia, assai vivace
Allegro appassionato – Presto

The Eliot Quartett was founded in 2014 and has become one of the most engaging string quartets of its generation. Hailing from Canada, Germany and Russia, the quartet’s members formed the group in Frankfurt am Main and have since gone on to win prizes at major national and international music competitions, including second prize at both the Mozart International Competition in Salzburg and the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, the Prize of the German Music Competition as well as three additional special prizes, and first prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of a piece by Karol Szymanowski at the inaugural International Karol Szymanowski Competition in Katowice, Poland.
The Eliot Quartett has established itself as a cornerstone of the music scene in its hometown of Frankfurt, Germany. In addition to appearances at the Alte Oper, the Polytechnische Gesellschaft concert series and the Schumann Gesellschaft, the Eliot Quartett is a regular guest at the Holzhausenschlösschen in Frankfurt and founded its own festival ‘Eliots am Main’ in 2022.
The Eliot Quartett’s concert schedule includes performances at renowned festivals and concerts series throughout Europe. It has performed at the Bachfest Leipzig, the Kasseler Musiktagen, the Mozartfest Würzburg, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Shostakovich Tage, the Festival Musica Sur and Delta Chamber Music Festival in Spain, the Styriarte in Graz, the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Schubertiade.

The four musicians began their chamber music instruction with Prof. Hubert Buchberger and went on to study with Prof. Tim Vogler at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and with Prof. Günter Pichler at the Instituto Internacional de Música de Camera at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. The Eliot Quartett has received valuable musical guidance from Valentin Erben, Oliver Wille, Martin Beaver, and the Mandelring Quartet and enjoys a close working relationship with the esteemed pianist Alfred Brendel and the Belcea Quartet.

The Eliot Quartett is named after the American poet T. S. Eliot whose famous work “Four Quartets” was inspired by the innovative late Quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven. Eliot, like Beethoven, attempted to establish a connection between past, present and future by breaking away from the accepted classical forms of the time.

The Eliot Quartett has released several recordings on GENUIN classics.

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