www.nightingalestringquartet.com Recorded by sound engineer Simon Brinkmann in August 2011. CV OF NIGHTINGALE STRING QUARTET: Nightingale String Quartet was founded in 2007 by violinists Gunvor Sihm og Josefine Dalsgaard, violist Marie Louise Broholt Jensen, and cellist Louisa Schwab. All four are currently studying their masters at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with professor Tim Frederiksen as their chamber music mentor and coach. Nightingale String Quartet was awarded the Danish Radio P2 talent prize 2010 “for – with burning passion, irresistible zest, and contagious mutual responsiveness – making the classical string quartet flounder with life, so that the music speaks directly and strongly to the novel as well as the experienced listener”. Nightingale String Quartet has won prizes at several national as well as international chamber music competitions. In june of 2008 the quartet won 1st prize at the Royal Danish Academy of Music’s scholarship chamber music competition. After having only played together for a year and a half, the quartet won 2nd prize at the Danish Radio’s chamber music competition in February 2009. This started a long series of concerts in the chamber music societies all around Denmark. In April 2010 Nightingale String Quartet was awarded 2nd prize at the international chamber music competition “Charles Hennen Concours” in Holland. As a result of this prize Nightingale String Quartet was exclusively invited to take part in the …
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