• 1st prize winner of International Karol Szymanowski Competition in Katowice
  • Winner of German Music Competition
  • 2nd prize, Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition
  • 2nd prize, Mozart International Competition in Salzburg

(I heard) them play one of the most convincing performances of Beethovens’s Op. 132 I remember, including a perfectly sustained and moving slow movement.
– Alfred Brendel

The performance of my “String Quartet, No. 3” by the Eliot Quartett at the Shostakovich Festival was the most perfect of any I have heard. It was enthusiastically received not only by myself, its author, but by the entire audience.
– Valentin Silvestrov

News

F.A.Z. about the opening concert of “DSCH & beyond”

“Maryana Osipova, Alexander Sachs (violins), Dmitry Hahalin (viola), and Michael Preuss (cello) handled it excellently: in high musical culture as a masterfully crafted piece full of harmony, with charm and lightness.”
09.02.24, Rhein-Main-Zeitung (Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung)

Interview at the F.A.Z.

“The Eliot Quartet, founded in 2014 and based in Frankfurt am Main, is one of the most successful string quartets. <…> Now Maryana Osipova, Alexander Sachs, Dmitry Hahalin, and Michael Preuß have set themselves the goal of performing all fifteen string quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich by the summer of 2025.“
Jan Brachmann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 07.02.2024

Fono Forum about “DSCH & beyond”

Just arrived: our interview about the ‘DSCH & beyond’ cycle in the Fono Forum Magazine!

De Nieuwe Muze about our concert in Amsterdam

Played with precision and dynamism. Their interaction was balanced and clear, allowing all voices to be easily followed. The heavy depression outside and even the war everywhere were momentarily forgotten. After the concert, it took a while before one had solid ground under their feet in Amsterdam again.
11.12.2023 De Nieuwe Muze

BR-Klassik – ON STAGE

Eliot Quartett in the Konzerthalle Bamberg: BR-KLASSIK – ON STAGE

Joseph Haydn: Streichqartett g-Moll op. 74, Nr. 3 – “Reiterquartett”;
Germaine Tailleferre: Streichquartett;
Johannes Brahms: Streichquartett a-Moll, op. 51, Nr. 2

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