Akela string quartet">
Wednesday, July 8 at 19.00 - We open the doors to the concert hall half an hour before. AKELA was formed in 2019 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and has since explored the string quartet repertoire with curiosity and presence
The quartet has performed at festivals, competitions and concerts in China, Canada and across Europe, and since 2023 is part of MERITA, rethinking the classical concert formThey have received both the Leonie Sonning Talent Award in 2024 and the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Award in 2023. The program begins with Britten's playful Three Divertimenti, three characterful miniatures each with their own expressionThis is followed by Sally Beamish's Nine Fragments, where themes from Schumann's 1st String Quartet are mirrored and transformed in nine short movements.The concert concludes with Schumann's exuberant 1st String Quartet, where the familiar themes are heard in their original power andConsistency
The quartet has performed at festivals, competitions and concerts in China, Canada and across Europe, and since 2023 is part of MERITA, rethinking the classical concert formThey have received both the Leonie Sonning Talent Award in 2024 and the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Award in 2023. The program begins with Britten's playful Three Divertimenti, three characterful miniatures each with their own expressionThis is followed by Sally Beamish's Nine Fragments, where themes from Schumann's 1st String Quartet are mirrored and transformed in nine short movements.The concert concludes with Schumann's exuberant 1st String Quartet, where the familiar themes are heard in their original power andConsistency
