Danish String Quartet members Violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen and cellist Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin joined Jameson Foster, an ethnomusicology PhD student at CU Boulder, for a pre-concert talk prior to the Quartet’s February 6, 2025 FCM Denver performance. Foster led a conversation on the cultural and historical context of mixing folk and classical music in Scandinavia, and how the quartet itself has navigated these styles in the approach to their own music Foster is also the founder of the Nordic Sound, a public archive for Nordic music across genres and generations, featuring interviews of prominent Scandinavian artists.
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