𝄞 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 2025/26 season, the Bennewitz Quartet will appear at major European festivals and venues, including Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Prague Spring Festival, Concentus Moraviae, and Laeiszhalle Hamburg. The ensemble will also return to the Dvořák Prague Festival, presenting one of the season’s highlight programs. In Prague, the quartet will join forces with leading Czech artists to perform Beethoven’s Septet and Schubert’s Octet within the chamber music series of the Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK). The season will further include an extensive tour of the United States with performances in several cities, among them a recital at the prestigious Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C.

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