Tue 11/14 @ 7:30PM
The Danish String Quarter made its official debut in 2002, but its roots go back a lot further. The three Danish members of the group (the fourth is Norwegian) met at camp as children with an unusually high level of enthusiasm for classical music. As teenagers at the royal Danish Academy of Music, they got serious about they were doing and soon went professional — still in their teens.
They also have a sense of humor describing their collective life story thus: “We are three Danes and one Norwegian cellist, making this a truly Scandinavian endeavor. Being relatively bearded, we are often compared to the Vikings. However, we are only pillaging the English coastline occasionally.”
Don’t expect any pillaging when they come to Cleveland to perform for the Cleveland Chamber Music Society at Disciples Christmas Church in Cleveland Heights. Instead they’ll be playing Mozart’s Divertimento in F major k. 138, 52-year-old British composer Thomas Ades’ 2011 The Four Quarters for Strings, and Benjamin Britten’s Three Divertimenti for String Quartet, plus “a selection of folk music.”
Get tickets at clevelandchambermusic/danish-string-quartet.