“Ensemble that one could spontaneously count as one of the best one has ever heard”
Süddeutsche Zeitung

“Drama, expression, and utmost sensitivity.” 
The Strad

The Bennewitz Quartet is one of the top ensembles on the international chamber music scene. After winning two prestigious competitions – Osaka Chamber Music and Festa 2005 and Prémio Paolo Borciani, Italy 2008, they quickly gained the acclaim of the critics. The ensemble has received various awards and in 2019 the four musicians won the Classic Prague Award for the Best Chamber Music Performance of the year.

In the 2023/24 season the Bennewitz Quartet will return to numerous stages in Europe (Stuttgart, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Linz, Bilbao) and will make its debut in Klagenfurt, Darmstadt and Duisburg. The quartet will tour again in the United States and Canada, and will continue various concert projects in Czech republic including its engagement in Dvořák’s integral string quartet performance within the Dvořák’s Prague Festival. The ensemble is currently preparing the release of its new CD featuring the string quartets by “those that used to play together” - Haydn, Mozart, Vaňhal and Dittersdorf.

Since 1998 the quartet bears the name of the violinist and director of a music conservatory in Prague, Antonín Bennewitz (1833-1926) who contributed greatly to the establishment of the Czech violin school. The most significant musicians who count among his disciples are Otakar Ševčík and František Ondříček and above all Karel Hoffman, Josef Suk and Oskar Nedbal who, under Bennewitz’s influence, formed the famous Bohemian Quartet.

“Unbelievably good!”
Saarbrückener Zeitung

“Perfect mastery of style and real experience of this repertoire.”
Diapason

“Simply splendid.”
Luzerner Zeitung

“The Bennewitz quartet is downright wonderful, with a perfect balance of warmth and objective clarity”
Gramophone