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



Formed in 2016 at the Conservatorio S. Cecilia in Rome, the Quartetto Eos immediately caught
the attention of the musical world for the freshness and depth of its interpretations, winning in 2018 the "Premio Farulli" awarded by the Italian Music Critics as part of the 'Premio Franco Abbiati'.

The ensemble has already achieved important successes in international competitions, such as the 1º prize at the Orpheus Competition in Winterthur (2020), at the International String Quartet Competition "Premio Paolo Borciani" in Reggio Emilia (2024), the Anton Rubinstein International Competition in Düsseldorf (2019), the Sergio Dragoni Competition in Milan (2019).
In 2023, he is a semi-finalist at the 77th edition of the prestigious Geneva Competition.

The Eos Quartet regularly plays for important musical institutions throughout Europe such as the Società del Quartetto in Milan, the Davos Festival, the IUC (Rome), the Filarmonica Romana, Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Flagey in Brussels, Musikdorf Ernen, the Scarlatti Association of Naples, the Philharmonie de Paris, Ticino Musica, the Swiss Foundation of Basel and others.

He also frequently collaborates with musicians of the calibre of Calogero Palermo (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra), Gustavo Nuñez (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra), Jerusalem Quartet, Cremona Quartet, Enrico Pace, Aron Chiesa (Teatro alla Scala), Enrico Dindo and others.

He is currently attending the Master in Chamber Music 'The Ebène Academy' at the Hochschule
für Musik und Theater München with the Ebène Quartet and regularly attends masterclasses with Alfred Brendel, Corina Belcea (Belcea Quartet), Eckart Runge, Patrick Jüdt (ECMA), Lawrence Dutton (Emerson Quartet), Isabel Charisius (Alban Berg Quartet), Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet) and the Jerusalem Quartet.

In addition, between 2017 and 2020 he attended the masterclass for string quartet at
the Stauffer Academy in Cremona in the class of
Quartetto di Cremona.

Since July 2022 he has been appointed 'Artist in Residence' at the prestigious Singer- Polignac Foundation in Paris under the recommendation of Pierre Colombet, first violin of the Quartet Ébène.

The ensemble was several times a guest on radio programmes on Rai Radio3, "SRF 2 Kultur" and on Rai 5, TV channel Rai 1.

In 2022, there debut album was released, entirely produced and financed by Da Vinci Records, featuring pieces by Janacek, Mendelssohn and Webern.
In 2024 a CD of music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari will be released, financed by COOP ART in Rome,
organised by the Accademia degli Sfaccendati and produced by the 'Brilliant Classic' label, and between 2024/2025 he will be engaged in the recording of the complete quintets with piano and string quartets by G. Sgambati with the Tactus label.

They currently maintains active collaborations with several living composers, including Filippo Del Corno, Who dedicated one of his latest works to the ensemble.

The Quartet in 2024/2025 will be engaged in a European tour having been selected to
be part of the prestigious MERITA project, run by the Association 'Le Dimore del Quartetto', of
of which he has been an artist since 2017, and among other debuts, he will play in the main season of the Società del Quartetto di Milano at the prestigious Sala Verdi.

Elia plays an F. Ruggeri violin from 1673 courtesy of 'J & A Beare' of London.
Giacomo plays a 1760 N. Gagliano violin courtesy of 'J & A Beare' of London.
Alessandro plays an anonymous viola from 1793 courtesy of 'J & A Beare' of London.
Silvia plays a 1750 G.B. Genova cello.
The quartet currently plays a quartet of instruments built by Peter Greiner, designed to be played solely together as a string quartet.
They were generously given on free loan by Maestro Valentin Erben (Alban Berg Quartet).