Danish String Quartet

Name: Danish String Quartet
Start: 2026-10-28T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-30T07:30:00+01:00
Location: Gammelør

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 — Fri, 30 Oct · 19:30

Gammelør, Copenhagen

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Danish String Quartet live: 28 October – 30 October 2026, Gammelør, Copenhagen.

Danish String Quartet plays a concert at Gammelør in Copenhagen.

About: Danish String Quartet

The quartet behind the folk-inflected ECM albums Wood Works, Last Leaf and Keel Road - three Danes and a Norwegian cellist who have risen to the top of the international chamber music world since their 2002 debut, and in 2025 became the first ensemble to win the prestigious Léonie Sonning Music Prize.

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2025-06
Danish String Quartet received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2025 - as the first ensemble in the prize's history - at a ceremony in Copenhagen, where the prize was presented by the King of Denmark.
2024-08
The quartet's latest album Keel Road was released on ECM Records in August 2024 and was named one of the year's best classical albums by The New York Times and nominated for the BBC Music Magazine Award 2025.
2026-04
In April 2026, the quartet performed a coast-to-coast tour in the USA together with the Danish Girls' Choir, including a New York premiere of David Lang's newly composed work in wildness at Carnegie Hall on April 17.

Tour

ManhattanAlbuquerqueSanta FeDallasAustinOberlinAnn ArborSt. PaulCopenhagen

Tracks

Keel RoadLatest ECM album (2024), named one of the year's best classical albums by New York Times

Last LeafECM album (2017) with Nordic folk melodies; album of the year in classical music according to NPR and New York Times

Wood WorksFolk music debut (2014) that put the quartet's distinctive profile on the map

Prism I-VAmbitious five-part series (2018-2023) on ECM, pairing Beethoven with Bach and contemporary composers

Adès, Nørgård, Abrahamsen: Music for String QuartetECM album (2016), the quartet's first release on the label

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