Christian Tetzlaff

Photo : © Alexandra Vosding

Christian Tetzlaff, Violin
Elisabeth Kufferath, Violin
Hanna Weinmeister, Viola
Tanja Tetzlaff, Violoncello

New York, November 2008

..The full audience at Zankel Hall Saturday evening didn't have the usual demographics. They were relatively young, obviously knowledgeable, and rightly enthusiastic. The reason? The Tetzlaff String Quartet is one of the world's most interesting chamber music ensembles. Like the audience, they are fairly young, they play with a fierce commitment, and their individual voices are so clear and melodic that they can even give the atonal Lyric Suite a Dvorák-like swing and clarity...

Harry Rolnick, ConcertoNet.com

...But when the "Lyric Suite" is performed as brilliantly as the Tetzlaff Quartet played it on Saturday night at Zankel Hall, the work's ardor requires no footnotes. Here supremely lyrical, exactingly detailed playing combined with impeccable balance and unanimity, resulting in an overwhelming performance...

Steve Smith,
THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Tetzlaff Quartet

The Tetzlaff Quartett are rapidly gaining a reputation as „one of the world’s most fascinating chamber ensembles. “
Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff first met Hanna Weinmeister and Elisabeth Kufferath in 1994 at the Chamber Music Festival in St. Gallen. Discovering a mutual devotion to chamber music, they decided to form a string quartet. Already after their debut in 1996, among others places they gave concerts at Berlin Festival and at Schleswig Holstein Festival, they received impressive critical acclaim. Since then, the four musicians have been playing several chamber music evenings together every season despite their reduced availability.
In the past years the quartet performed at the Louvre in Paris, at the Société Philharmonique of Brussels as well as at the Vienna Musikverein. The Tetzlaff Quartett is particular interested in innovative chamber music projects as in Badenweiler 2002, where they realized a concepts by Christian Tetzlaff called „Through darkness to light. In autumn 2006 they played at the Musikfest in Bremen. 2007 they started off with a concert at De Single in Antwerpen followed by a re-invitation to Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. Later this year they will be giving concert among others at Gewandhaus in Leipzig and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.