Eva Dollfuß comes from the Rhineland and, after studying for many years with Dutch teachers at the Heinsberg District Music School, was a pupil of Keiko Wataya (Utrecht, Amsterdam) during the final years before her A-levels (Abitur). She studied with Thomas Brandis in Berlin and Lübeck and, as an Erasmus student, with Mikyung Lee in Helsinki. Masters’ courses, including with musicians such as Shmuel Ashkenasi, Donald Weilerstein and Gerhard Schulz, had a lasting influence on her.
After a period spent in three different European youth orchestras, she became an academy member and regular substitute in the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin at the age of 21. Even before completing her postgraduate studies, she joined the Dresden Philharmonic as Deputy Concertmaster, thus returning to the vicinity of a tri-border region (whose languages, apart from German, she unfortunately does not speak).
She is a prize-winner of what was then the most highly endowed German competition for young musicians, the Jakob Stainer Violin Competition.
Chamber music has always played a central role for her. She was Artist in Residence at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, a frequent guest of the Ensemble Mediterrain, and continues to perform regularly in all manner of ensembles, including some of her own innovative formats.
Eva Dollfuß is the founder of the Jeanquirit Quartet, which performs with Peter Rösel, Piotr Szumiel, Sonia Achkar and even Marek Janowski as concert presenter and curator. Together with her chamber music partner Matthias Wilde, she took over the artistic and organisational direction of the Dresden series "Meisterwerke – Meisterinterpreten" in 2021, which has been running since 1954. She also enjoys teaching and holds a teaching post at the Dresden University of Music.
Eva Dollfuß plays a violin by Stephan von Baehr and is a passionate tango dancer.