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Danish String Quartet
North American Tour, November 2-14
Princeton, NJ | Toronto, ON | Syracuse, NY | Lewisburg, PA | Buffalo, NY | Orono, ME | Middlebury, VT | Montreal, QB | Cleveland, OH
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New York, NY: October 5, 2023 -- The GRAMMY®-nominated Danish String Quartet, which continues to assert its preeminence among the world’s finest string quartets, returns to North America in November for the first of three tours this season on this side of the Atlantic, beginning on November 2 in Princeton, NJ. The Quartet's concerts this fall feature music by Haydn, Shostakovich, Britten, Mozart, Adès, Schumann and Schubert, as well as new material from their forthcoming recording of Nordic and Northern European folk tunes on ECM. Complete programs for each concert are below.
Their most recent release, PRISM V (April 2023, ECM) concluded their highly acclaimed five-disc PRISM project on a high note. The New York Times called the series "some of the most essential listening of the past decade" and Limelight Magazine named PRISM V "CD of the Month" in August, writing that the series overall had "an overwhelming sense of rightness when it comes to Beethoven...very high indeed on the list of modern interpretations." Each PRISM CD connected a Bach fugue to a late Beethoven quartet which, in turn, was connected to a quartet by a later master -- on PRISM V, that is Webern. The Quartet described the concept as "a beam of music split through Beethoven’s prism."
November 2023 Concerts in North America
Thursday, November 2, 7:30 pm | Princeton, NJ
Princeton University Concerts | Tickets & Info
PURCELL Chaconne in G minor (arr. Britten)
HAYDN Quartet No. 26 in G Minor, Op. 20, No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108
DANISH STRING QUARTET (arr) : Folk Music
Friday, November 3, 8:00 pm | Toronto, ON
The Royal Conservatory | Tickets & Info
PURCELL Chaconne in G minor (arr. Britten)
HAYDN Quartet No. 26 in G Minor, Op. 20, No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108
SCHUBERT: String Quartet in D minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden”
Saturday, November 4, 7:30 pm | Syracuse, NY
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music | Tickets & Info
PURCELL Chaconne in G minor (arr. Britten)
HAYDN Quartet No. 26 in G Minor, Op. 20, No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108
DANISH STRING QUARTET (arr) : Folk Music
Sunday, November 5, 4:00 pm | Lewisburg, PA
Bucknell University Weis Center | Tickets & Info
MOZART: Divertimento in F major, K. 138
THOMAS ADÈS: The Four Quarters
BRITTEN: 3 Divertimenti for String Quartet
DANISH STRING QUARTET (arr) : Folk Music
Tuesday, November 7, 7:30 pm | Buffalo, NY
Buffalo Chamber Music Society at Kleinhans Music Hall | Tickets & Info
PURCELL Chaconne in G minor (arr. Britten)
HAYDN Quartet No. 26 in G Minor, Op. 20, No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108
DANISH STRING QUARTET (arr) : Folk Music
Wednesday, November 8, 7:30 pm | Buffalo, NY
Buffalo Chamber Music Society at SUNYAB Lippes Concert Hall | Tickets & Info
MOZART: Divertimento in F major, K. 138
THOMAS ADÈS: The Four Quarters
BRITTEN: 3 Divertimenti for String Quartet
SCHUBERT: String Quartet in D minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden”
Friday, November 10, 7:00 pm | Orono, ME
Collins Center for the Arts | Tickets & Info
PURCELL Chaconne in G minor (arr. Britten)
HAYDN Quartet No. 26 in G Minor, Op. 20, No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108
DANISH STRING QUARTET (arr) : Folk Music
Saturday, November 11, 7:30 pm | Middlebury, VT
Middlebury College Performing Arts Series | Tickets & Info
PURCELL Chaconne in G minor (arr. Britten)
HAYDN Quartet No. 26 in G Minor, Op. 20, No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108
DANISH STRING QUARTET (arr) : Folk Music
Sunday, November 12, 3:30 pm | Montreal, QB
Ladies Morning Musical Club | Tickets & Info
PURCELL Chaconne in G minor (arr. Britten)
HAYDN Quartet No. 26 in G Minor, Op. 20, No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108
SCHUBERT: String Quartet in D minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden”
Tuesday, November 14, 7:30 pm | Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Chamber Music Society | Tickets & Info
MOZART: Divertimento in F major, K. 138
THOMAS ADÈS: The Four Quarters
BRITTEN: 3 Divertimenti for String Quartet
DANISH STRING QUARTET (arr) : Folk Music
Programs subject to change
North American Concert Dates, February 2024
Feb 10, 2024 / Big Sky, MT / Warren Miller Performing Arts Center
Feb 11 & 12, 2024 / Calgary, AB / Calgary Pro Musica
Feb 14, 2024 / Indianapolis, IN / Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis
Feb 15, 2024 / Cincinnati, OH / Chamber Music Cincinnati
Feb 16, 2024 / Houston, TX / DaCamera
Feb 17 & 18, 2024 / Tulsa, OK / Chamber Music Tulsa
North American Concert Dates, April 2024
DOPPELGÄNGER 4 – US Premiere by Thomas Adès
This season, the Danish String Quartet conclude their DOPPELGÄNGER series, an ambitious 4-year international commissioning project, which pairs a new work with its “doppelgänger”—the Schubert quartet or quintet that inspired it. For the final installment of the project, the Quartet, joined by the versatile Finnish cellist Johannes Rostamo (principal cellist in the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra), perform a new quintet by renowned British composer Thomas Adès and Schubert’s final chamber work, the masterful String Quintet in C major, considered one of the classical canon’s greatest pieces of chamber music. The Quartet have had a long relationship with Adès’s music, having recorded his Arcadiana quartet on their debut ECM CD (2016). The project's three previous seasons featured new works by Bent Sørensen, Lotta Wennäkoski and Anna Thorvaldsdottir. The DOPPELGÄNGER pieces are commissioned by the Danish String Quartet with the support of Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures, Vancouver Recital Society, Flagey in Brussels and Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam.
DOPPELGÄNGER 4 Program
SCHUBERT Cello Quintet in C Major, D. 956
THOMAS ADÈS New Quintet
Apr 10, 2024 / DOPPELGÄNGER / UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures, Santa Barbara, CA – US Premiere
Apr 11, 2024 / Irvine, CA / Philharmonic Society of Orange County
Apr 12, 2024 / Irvine, CA / An Evening of Folk Music / Philharmonic Society of Orange County at Westside Museum
Apr 13, 2024 / Berkeley, CA / DOPPELGÄNGER / Cal Performances
Apr 14, 2024 / Vancouver, BC / DOPPELGÄNGER /Vancouver Recital Society
Apr 16, 2024 / Easton, PA / Lafayette College Williams Center for the Arts
Apr 18, 2024 / New York, NY / DOPPELGÄNGER / Carnegie Hall – NY Premiere
Apr 19, 2024 / Athens, GA / University of Georgia Performing Arts Center
Apr 20, 2024 / Richmond, VA / University of Richmond Modlin Center for the Arts