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Eberhard Feltz (born 27 June 1937) is a German classical violinist and chamber music pedagogue. [1] [2] Feltz became internationally known especially as a mentor for string quartets and chamber music ensembles. [1] He is often called the "guru of the string quartet". [3]
Feltz was born in Königsberg in 1937. [2] His family was expelled from Königsberg in 1945 after the end of the war. [1] Feltz began playing the violin at the age of seven. [2] He studied violin in Berlin with Werner Scholz, later in St. Petersburg with Michail Waiman. [2]
Feltz began to teach violin and chamber music in 1963 at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". [1] In 1985, he was appointed professor for violin and chamber music. [2] Feltz is in great demand as a lecturer for chamber music master classes. He is a regular guest teacher at the Davos Festival [4] , the Heidelberger Frühling [2] or at the Dutch String Quartet Academy [5] . Feltz often assumes responsibility on juries of chamber music competitions such as the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb [6] of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin [2] , the competition Schubert und die Musik der Moderne [7] in Graz or the International Chamber Music Competition in Hamburg. [8]
As a mentor of chamber music ensembles, Feltz initially supported the Vogler Quartet, later the Berlin Kuss Quartet and Atrium Quartet, the Dutch Rubens Quartet and the German-Estonian Schumann Quartet. [1] In addition, he worked with the French Quatuor Ébène, the Amsterdam Busch Trio, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
Feltz's book 'Genauer als Worte. Intuitives Finden – 44 Übungen' was published by Davos Festival Foundation in 2017. [9]
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