TheDanish String Quartet made its debut at theCopenhagen Summer Festival in 2002. The group is known for its performances of classical music as well as its own renditions of traditional Nordicfolk music. The quartet has also worked with an extensive range of contemporary Scandinavian composers.
Violinists Frederik Øland and Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen and violist Asbjørn Nørgaard met as children at a Danish music summer camp where they played both football and music together, eventually making the transition into a serious string quartet in their teens and studying at theRoyal Academy of Music, Copenhagen. At the time, the name of the group was the Young Danish String Quartet. In 2008, they were joined by Norwegian cellist Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin and changed the group's name to the Danish String Quartet. The quartet was primarily taught and mentored by Tim Frederiksen and has participated in master classes with theTokyo andEmerson String Quartets,Alasdair Tait,Paul Katz,Hugh Maguire,Levon Chilingirian, andGábor Takács-Nagy.
Since 2007, the group has curated its own annual festival, the DSQ Festival, in Copenhagen. 2016 marked the beginning of Series of Four, the quartet's concert series in the concert hall of the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
In 2013, the quartet began a three-year appointment at theChamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS Two Program.[1] The quartet was named aBBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist for 2013–15[2] and Ensemble of the Year byMusical America in 2019.[3]
In 2024, the quartet released its third folk music album,Keel Road.[4]
In 2017,NPR Music named the quartet's second folk music album,Last Leaf, the Best Classical Album of 2017;[12] in 2019, the quartet was nominated for aGrammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for its albumPrism I.[13]
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