St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5EB. Doors open 3.00pm. Refreshments.
A first visit to Hay by this widely travelled and highly regarded ensemble - Norway’s leading string quartet. A unique sound from a conventional line-up reflecting their Scandinavian roots.
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The Engegård Quartet:
Arvid Engegård and Laura Custodio Sabas - violins,
Juliet Jopling - viola, Jan Clemens Carlsen - cello
Programme
Johan Kvandal: String Quartet No. 1, Opus 11
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor No. 11, Opus 95
Johannes Brahms: String Quartet in A minor, Opus 51, No. 2
Traditional Norwegian folk songs
Formed under the midnight sun in Lofoten in 2005, the Engegård Quartet has rapidly become one of Norway’s most sought after ensembles. Their bold, fresh interpretations of the classical repertoire combined with a deep attachment to their Scandinavian roots has attracted international acclaim and inspired some innovative partnerships and programming.
The Quartet has a busy concert schedule throughout Scandinavia and further afield. They have performed in some of Europe’s finest venues including the Mozarteum in Salzburg and Prague’s Rudolfinum, as well as making several tours to South America. They appear in international festivals such as Delft Chamber Music Festival, SoNoRo Festival in Bucharest and Heidelberg’s Streichquartettfest.
Deeply committed to today's composers and to keeping the string quartet repertoire alive and developing, the Engegård Quartet has commissioned several works throughout their career focussing first and foremost on Norwegian composers. International commissions written for the Engegård Quartet include Olli Mustonen, Philip Dutton and Julian Anderson.
The Engegård Quartet's acclaimed collaborations with the jazz violinist Ola Kvernberg and hardanger fiddler Nils Økland have led to a number of commissions including the Telemark Quintet from Nils Anders Mortensen, and Hypnagogia and The Flight from Ola Kvernberg, several of which they have recorded.
On the classical front, the Engegård Quartet worked with (among others) Sir András Schiff, Leif Ove Andsnes, Christian Ihle Hadland, Paul Lewis, Dènes Várion, Nabuko Imai, Kim Kashkashian and Emma Johnson MBE.
The Quartet's concert and recording programmes reflect their passion for the core quartet repertoire and their desire to discover and share new musical worlds, and from psalms to polkas, Norway's folk music tradition has been part of their repertoire from the start. They have recently released several folk music videos, many in their own arrangements for string quartet.
The Engegård Quartet is supported by the Norwegian Arts Council.