1949-1983 Den Nye Danske Kvartet, known in English media as The Danish Quartet,[4] and in their releases on the Valois label of Michel Bernstein as the Quatuor Danois.
[11] In 2012, The New York Times selected the quartet’s concert as a highlight of the year, saying the performance featured “one of the most powerful renditions of Beethoven’s Opus 132 String Quartet that I’ve heard live or on a recording.”[12] In 2013, they began a three-year appointment in Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s CMS Two Program.
Violinists Frederik Øland and Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen and violist Asbjørn Nørgaard met as children at a music summer camp where they played both football and music together, eventually making the transition into a serious string quartet in their teens and studying at Copenhagen’s Royal Academy of Music.
In 2008, the three Danes were joined by Norwegian cellist Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin.
The Danish String Quartet was primarily taught and mentored by Professor Tim Frederiksen and have participated in master classes with the Tokyo and Emerson String Quartets, Alasdair Tait, Paul Katz, Hugh Maguire, Levon Chilingirian and Gábor Takács-Nagy.