The world-renowned Danish String Quartet makes its Aldeburgh Festival debut, juxtaposing Anna Thorvaldsdottir's new work, Rituals, with Schubert’s Rosamunde Quartet.

The GRAMMY® nominated Danish String Quartet are one of the finest playing today. As The Wall Street Journal observes, “It’s often said of string quartets that listening to one at its best is like eavesdropping on four intelligent people engaged in a scintillating conversation. And that’s been true every time I’ve heard this ensemble perform.”

Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s “seemingly boundless textural imagination” (NY Times) and striking sound world has made her “one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music” (NPR). Her music is composed as much by sounds and nuances as by harmonies and lyrical material – it is written as an ecosystem of sounds, where materials continuously grow in and out of each other, often inspired in an important way by nature and its many qualities, in particular structural ones, like proportion and flow.

Anna’s “detailed and powerful” (Guardian) orchestral writing has garnered her awards from the New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, the Nordic Council, and the UK’s Ivors Academy, as well as commissions by many of the world’s top orchestras.