Programme
Mozart – String Quartet in D K575
Bartók – String Quartet No 3
Performers
Eliot Quartett
Maryana Osipova Violin
Alexander Sachs Violin
Dmitry Hahalin Viola
Michael Press Cello
The Eliot Quartett was founded in 2014 and is the result of long-term friendship and musical experience. The four musicians began studying chamber music with Hubert Buchberger and are currently studying with Tim Vogler at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and with Günter Pichler at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. The Eliot Quartett has attended masterclasses with Valentin Erben, Alfred Brendel, and the Mandelring Quartet, and in October 2016 won Second Prize at the Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation String Quartet Competition. In 2017, the Eliot Quartett was accepted into the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz Scholarship Program and received the Academy Prize for the promotion of young talent from the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Most recently the Quartet was awarded Second Prize at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in February this year. The Eliot Quartett is named after the American poet T. S. Eliot whose famous work The Four Quartets was inspired by the innovative late quartets of 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.
