Eos Quartet

Italy

Elia Chiesa, violin 
Giacomo Del Papa, violin 
Alessandro Acqui, viola 
Silvia Ancarani, cello 

Biography

Formed in 2016 within the Conservatorio S. Cecilia in Rome, the Quartetto Eos won in 2018 the ‘Premio Farulli’ awarded by the Italian Music Critics within the ‘Franco Abbiati’ Prize. 
The Quartet has specialised with Alfred Brendel, Corina Belcea, Eckart Runge, Lawrence Dutton, Isabel Charisius, Günter Pichler, the Jerusalem Quartet, the Cremona Quartet and the Ebène Quartet. 
The ensemble has already achieved important successes in competitions and won the First Prize at the Orpheus Competition in Zurich. 
In 2023 the quartet was a semifinalist in the prestigious Geneva competition and has been invited to participate in top International competitions in recent years, such as: Weimar Competition, Mozart Competition in Salzburg, Szymanowsky Competition in Katowice. 
The Eos Quartet plays regularly for important institutions throughout Europe and collaborates with musicians of the calibre of Calogero Palermo, Jerusalem Quartet, Cremona Quartet, Enrico Pace, Aron Chiesa, Cristian Poltéra and Enrico Dindo. 
The ensemble is a guest on radio programmes on Rai Radio3, ‘SRF 2 Kultur’ and on Rai 5. 
Since July 2022 he has been ‘Artist in Residence’ at the prestigious Singer-Polignac Foundation in Paris together with the Quartet Ébène. The quartet is currently studying in “Ebène Academy” in the Hochschule Muenchen. 
In 2023 he released two discs entirely produced and financed by Da Vinci Records and Brilliant Classics with pieces by Janacek, Mendelssohn and Webern and Wolf Ferrari.