Eliot Quartet
The Eliot Quartet is an international string quartet founded in 2014 .
Naming
The quartet is named after the poet T.S. Eliot , who was inspired by the string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven for his work Four Quartets , published in 1943 .
Artistic work
The members of the quartet studied at various music academies, including the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow , the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig and the Vancouver Academy of Music . Before the Eliot Quartet was founded, some of the musicians worked as solo artists or as part of a chamber music ensemble.
The Eliot Quartet is taught at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Tim Vogel and in the master class of Günter Pichler , the founder of the Alban Berg Quartet at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid . The quartet also receives artistic support from the Mandelring Quartet , Valentin Erben , Alfred Brendel and Hubert Buchberger .
In autumn 2014 the musicians of the Eliot Quartet won the competition of the Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main . In 2016 the ensemble won 3rd prize in the string quartet category at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy University Competition and 2nd prize at the International String Quartet Competition of the Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation in Berlin. The following year the string quartet was awarded the Academy Prize for the Promotion of Young Talent from the Academy of Sciences in Mainz . In 2018 the Eliot Quartet received 2nd prize at the Mozart Competition in Salzburg and 2nd prize at the Melbourne International Music Competition, won the German Music Competition prize with 3 special prizes and 1st prize with a special prize for the best interpretation of a work by K. Szymanowski at the Karol Szymanowski Competition.
Since 2017, the string quartet has received a grant from the Villa Musica Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation . In addition to numerous concerts in Germany, the musicians also performed in Austria , Belgium , Spain and Japan . In 2019, the Eliot Quartet will be the first quartet in residence to organize its own concert series in the Holzhausenschlösschen in Frankfurt am Main .
Members
- First violin : Maryana Osipova
- Second violin: Alexander Sachs
- Viola : Dmitry Hahalin
- Violoncello : Michael Preuss
Individual evidence
- ↑ klassik.com: klassik.com: Mozart Competition selects winners in the string quartet category. Retrieved February 17, 2018 .
- ^ Eliot Quartet (Frankfurt am Main) . In: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition . ( fmb-hochschulwettbewerb.de [accessed on February 19, 2018]).
- ^ Prize for the Eliot Quartet - Eliot Quartet. Retrieved February 19, 2018 (UK English).
- ↑ Eliot Quartet | Haydn competition. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
- ↑ ELIOT QUARTET | Concerts de Midi | Middag concerts. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 22, 2017 ; accessed on February 19, 2018 (fr-fr). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Eliot Quartet in Residence for the 30th anniversary of the Frankfurt Community Foundation | Frankfurt community foundation in the Holzhausenschlößchen. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
