Their shared passion for chamber music led Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff as well as Hanna Weinmeister and Elisabeth Kufferath to form a string quartet in 1994 – the Tetzlaff Quartet was born. Since then this ensemble has developed into one of the most sought-after quartets of the middle generation.

Regular concerts take the Tetzlaff Quartett to all the important concert venues in Germany, as well as to France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain, Switzerland and the USA. The ensemble is at home on the major international stages such as the Cité de la Musique in Paris, Wigmore Hall London, the Société Philharmonique in Brussels, the Vienna Musikverein and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. The ensemble is a welcome guest at renowned festivals such as the Berliner Festwochen and the Heidelberger Frühling. A tour to the USA and concerts in Japan are planned for this season. In Europe, the quartet will perform in Oslo and Bergen, Paris and Evian, among others. In Germany they have a residency at the Schwetzinger SWR Festival; they will also give concerts in Berlin, Hamburg, Duisburg, Coesfeld, Freinsheim and Warstein.

In 2010 the first CD with quartets by Schönberg and Sibelius was released on the CAvi label; in 2013 a recording with works by Berg and Mendelssohn followed, awarded the “Diapason d’Or”. A CD with works by Haydn and Schubert was released on the Ondine label in 2017, and most recently in 2020 a recording of two late string quartets by Beethoven.