Award-Winning Danish String Quartet Embarks on Seven-City U.S. Tour, November 12-20

Charlottesville, Ithaca, Pawling, Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga, Washington DC 

Featuring tunes from their critically acclaimed new album Keel Road (ECM Classics) and music by composers from Haydn and Mozart to Caroline Shaw

"I remain at a loss to explain how these four musicians create such pathos from a simple old folk tune. Their arrangement gives it an almost Beethovenian depth of feeling — sadness and joy turning inescapably into each another. "
—David Weininger in The New York Times 

"...an ensemble whose affinity for all the corners of the standard canon is only matched by their enthusiasm for Nordic folk music...their feel for its style, total grasp of all of the musical elements, exuberant virtuosity, and sheer vigor – rewards repeated listening."
--Jonathan Blumhofer in The ArtsFuse

“The Danish are remarkable, as ever – capable of intense blend, extreme dynamic variation (in which they seem glued together), perfect intonation even on harmonics, and constant vitality and flow.”
— Andrew Mellor in Gramophone

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Director of Public Relations, Kirshbaum Associates
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New York, NY: October 21, 2024 -- The GRAMMY^®-nominated Danish String Quartet, known as one of the world’s most innovative and versatile string quartets, returns to the U.S. for a seven-city tour this November, on the heels of releasing their critically acclaimed new album  Keel Road (ECM, August 2024) -- called “a multifaceted diamond” by BBC Music Magazine -- and winning two major international music awards: the prestigious Léonie Sonning Music Prize, which includes a $150,000 award and a series of concerts in Denmark in May 2025; and an Edison Klassik award for their PRISM V recording (ECM, 2023). 

On the U.S. tour in November, the Quartet will perform varied repertoire by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Caroline Shaw, as well as material from the new album, a collection of arrangements of traditional folk tunes and original compositions that retraces musical pathways across the North Sea, from Denmark and Norway to the Faroe Islands, England, and Ireland.

Danish String Quartet - Winter U.S. Tour
January 31 – February 6, 2025

January 31, 2025 Santa Barbara, CA
UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures Series
SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73
MOZART: Divertimento in F Major, K. 138
STRAVINSKY: Three Pieces for String Quartet
TURLOUGH O’CAROLAN: Three melodies
DANISH STRING QUARTET (ARR): Original Compositions and Traditional Tunes

February 1, 2025 Irvine, CA
Philharmonic Society of Orange County
Same as Jan 31

February 2, 2025 Berkeley, CA
Cal Performances
CAROLINE SHAW: Entr'acte
HAYDN: Quartet Op. 77/2: III, Andante
STRAVINSKY: Three Pieces for String Quartet
TURLOUGH O’CAROLAN: Three melodies
SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 15 in E minor, Op. 144

February 3 & 4, 2025 Portland, OR
Portland Friends of Chamber Music
Programs TBA

February 6, 2025 Denver, CO
Friends of Chamber Music Denver
SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73
MOZART: Divertimento in F Major, K. 138
STRAVINSKY: Three Pieces for String Quartet
TURLOUGH O’CAROLAN: Three melodies

Programs subject to change

Danish String Quartet - Spring U.S. Tour
April 2–10, 202

April 2, 2025 Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (DOPPELGÄNGER)
SCHUBERT: Quartet in G Major, D. 887
SØRENSEN: Doppelgänger
SCHUBERT: Der Doppelgänger, D. 957 (Arr. DSQ)

April 4, 2025 New York, NY
Carnegie Hall (DOPPELGÄNGER)
SCHUBERT: Quartet in G Major, D. 887
SØRENSEN: Doppelgänger New York Premiere
SCHUBERT: Der Doppelgänger, D. 957 (Arr. DSQ)

April 5, 2025 Bridgehampton, NY
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival
Program TBA

April 7, 2025 Spartanburg, SC
Carlos Moseley Chamber Music Series at Converse University
Program TBA

April 8, 2025 Camden, SC
Arts Center of Kershaw County
Program TBA

April 9 & 10, 2025 Savannah, GA
Savannah Music Festival
Program TBA

Programs subject to change