Engegård Quartet + North Sea String Quartet: Folk

A first: the Norwegian Engegård Quartet and the North Sea String Quartet from The Netherlands together on one stage! The North Sea String Quartet’s greatest love is improvisation, which will merge with the folk music the Engegård brings along. This double string ensemble is ideally suited to translate the layering of improvisation, folk melodies and their rhythms into an intimate and sophisticated context. Traditional Norwegian melodies and the organic playing of the North Sea String Quartet will meld into a colorful whole.

The Engegård Quartet has its roots in the Lofoten Islands, the magnificent Norwegian archipelago where silence is interrupted only by the wind that is always howling around the mountain peaks. The contrast of this vast landscape with the bustling port city of Rotterdam, home to the North Sea String Quartet where all kinds of cultures come together as well as an international hotspot of modern architecture, cannot but leave its mark in the collaboration of both quartets.

Engegård Quartet: Arvid Engegård violin, Laura Custodio Sabas violin, Juliet Jopling viola, Jan Clemens Carlsen cello

North Sea String Quartet: George Dumitriu violin, Pablo Rodríguez violin, Yanna Pelser viola, Thomas van Geelen cello