The Danish String Quartet will perform a concert of Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Schubert in Ozawa Hall.
Schubert — String Quartet in A minor, D. 804 “Rosamunde”
Anna Thorvaldsdottir — Rituals
Schubert — Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118 (arr. Danish String Quartet)
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The Danish String Quartet
Frederik Øland (Violin); Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (Violin); Asbjørn Nørgaard (Viola); Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin (Cello) form the Grammy-nominated Danish String Quartet.
They are known for an expressivity inextricably bound to the music, the BSO says, from Haydn to Shostakovich to contemporary scores, and for performances with a rare musical spontaneity as they appear throughout the world.
They have earned many awards and prestigious appointments, including Musical America’s 2020 Ensemble of the Year and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, the Danish String Quartet was named in 2013 as BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists and appointed to the The Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two).
As part of a three-year residency, the Danish String Quartet brings a series of five concerts, which mirror the programs in its ongoing recording project with ECM New Series, PRISM, to La Jolla Music Society in November 2019.
Each PRISM program is an exploration of the symbiotic musical and contextual relationships between Bach fugues, Beethoven string quartets, and works by Shostakovich, Schnittke, Bartok, Mendelssohn, and Webern, forming an expertly curated musical evolution within each individual program and across the entire PRISM repertory.
Prism I, the first disc of this five-album project for the ECM label, was released in September 2018 and garnered a Grammy nomination in the category of Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for the group’s recordings of Beethoven’s Op. 127 in E-flat Major, Bach’s Fugue in E-flat Major (arranged by Mozart), and Shostakovich’s final string quartet, No. 15 in E-flat minor.
The Danish String Quartet returns to North America in the 2019-2020 season as one of the most prominent musical voices in the monumental celebrations of Beethoven’s 250th year. With three sweeping North American tours, the Danish engages its expansive audience in programming centered around the towering Beethoven string quartets, as well as many important works which inspired, and were inspired by, these revered giants of the classical canon.
The Quartet appears in Minneapolis, Vancouver, Portland, Seattle, Rohnert Park, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, Irvine, Montreal, Chicago, Detroit, Denver, Boston, and Iowa City. The Danish returns to Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as the featured string quartet performing the entire Beethoven cycle over the course of six concerts in February 2020.
In May, the Quartet returns to the United States to perform the cycle in St. Paul, MN, as the 2019-2020 Featured Ensemble at the Schubert Club. European engagements include London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, multiple dates in Denmark, as well as tours of Germany, Brussels, the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain.