𝄞 Jakub Fišer - first violin 𝄞
𝄞 Štěpán Ježek - second violin 𝄞
𝄡 Jiří Pinkas - viola 𝄡
𝄢 Štěpán Doležal - violoncello 𝄢

“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 2024/25 season, the Bennewitz Quartet will return to several European venues, including Wigmore Hall London, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, and Konzerthaus Berlin, performing the string quintets by Dvořák and Brahms with Veronika Hagen. The quartet will also perform in the United States, making its debut in Providence, Houston, and Tucson, and returning to the Music and Beyond Festival in Ottawa and The Harvard Musical Association in Boston. Meanwhile, various concert projects will continue in the Czech Republic. The final concerts of the integral performance of Dvořák’s string quartets will take place in September as part of the Dvořák Prague Festival. Later that month, a new CD featuring string quartets by “those who used to play together” - Haydn, Mozart, Vaňhal, and Dittersdorf - will be released under the Supraphon label.

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