• 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

Classical Music Magazine about “DSCH & beyond”

“’ Finding these connections helps both us and the audience understand the music in a more nuanced way,’ says Sachs”
Classical Music Magazine (UK)

“DSCH & beyond”, hr2-kultur

3rd concert of the ‘DSCH & beyond’ cycle was recorded by hr2-Kultur and will be broadcast on May 3rd at 8 p.m.

Eliot Quartett: Shostakovich and the Viennese Classic

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!
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