The Eliot Quartett
was founded in 2014 and has become one of the most engaging and promising string quartets of the next 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 work 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, where it had the honor ofperforming six concerts as Quartet in Residence in 2019 with guests Boris Brovtsyn, Annika Treutler, Laura Ruiz Ferreres, Torleif Thedéen and Maxim Rysanov.

The Eliot Quartett’s concert schedule includes performances at renowned festivals and concert series throughout Europe. It has performed at the Bachfest Leipzig, the Kasseler Musiktage, the Mozartfest Würzburg, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, the Festival Musica Sur in Spain, the Styriarte in Graz, the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Schubertiade.

The four musicians began their chamber music instruction with Hubert Buchberger and went on to study with Tim Vogler at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and with 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 of 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’s debut CD was released in 2019 as part of GENUIN’s German Music Competition Award Winner series.

Dmitry Ablogin
is one of today’s most brilliant and innovative keyboard artists. He studied with Vladimir Tropp at the Gnessin Academy in Moscow, from which he graduated with honors in 2012. He continued his education in Germany, studying fortepiano with Jesper B. Christensen at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main.

Laureate of the 1st International Chopin competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw (2018), Dmitry Ablogin has won prizes in numerous piano competitions, including the Nikolai Rubinstein in Paris, Vera Lotar-Shevchenko in Novosibirsk, German Piano Open in Hanover and Musica Antiqua in Bruges.

Dmitry Ablogin has performed in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Russia, France, at the Miami International Piano Festival in the US and also at the renowned “Chopin and his Europe” festival in Warsaw, Poland. In October 2021 he won the 10th International German Piano Award and made his debut at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, performing Piano Concerto No. 4 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

In addition to performing around the world, Dmitry Ablogin teaches piano and fortepiano at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt.