News & Reviews

・・ACROSS FESTIVAL 2025・・

・・This autumn, we’re once again opening the doors to our own festival, ACROSS Festival!
Mark your calendars 🎈September 13–14 🎈 and pin the venue 🪭 LiteraturHaus Copenhagen 🪭 – we promise four unique concerts packed with energy and inspiration!

Joining us this year are none other than
❤️‍🔥 Trio Pantoum ❤️‍🔥 and ❤️‍🔥 Elmore Quartet❤️‍🔥 – what a team!!
If you ask us, at the heart of chamber music is friendship – on stage and beyond. We can’t wait to celebrate it with you – both with our fantastic colleagues and with all of you in the audience 🫵🏻🫵🏻

Stay tuned for more details! 🏎️ 💨

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・・ Kammermusikforeningen af 1911 ・・

・・ We’re proud and honoured to share that, starting with the 2025-26 season, we will take on the role of artistic directors and board members of 🔸 Kammermusikforeningen af 1911 🔸 – a cherished chamber music society in our hometown, Copenhagen. ☁️✨
This society’s history stretches back so far that, back in the day, concert tickets cost just 1 krone.. 💸 Times have certainly changed, but this charming detail highlights the legacy we are now so privileged to be part of. ✨
We can’t wait to take on this new role and are incredibly grateful for the trust the board has placed in us. 🤝🏼 We hope you’ll join us at Garnisonskirken in Copenhagen – 7 beautiful evenings each season. ☁️☁️
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🔗 www.1911.dk

・・Heartwarming words about our Wigmore Hall debut last week ・・

“The NOVO Quartet is a stunning ensemble.”

“While one can celebrate individual triumphs, it is worth noting how the quartet works so supremely well as a composite entity: the Menuetto had this writ large; rarely if ever have I heard a quartet diminuendo together at exactly the same rate, and yet here it was – and a joy to hear.”

“(…) here is a quartet unafraid of a true pianissimo”

Read the full review by Colin Clarke here

・・ OUR OWN FESTIVAL ・・

On the weekend of September 7-8, we held our very own festival, ACROSS. We couldn’t be happier with how the project turned out – a huge thank you to everyone who joined us and made it a truly special weekend at Musikhuset København. It was an absolute blast, celebrating chamber music with some incredibly talented ensembles! 🧜🏼‍♀️

See you again next year – with new ensembles, a new venue, and fresh ideas! Mark your calendar for September 13-14 2025 🧜🏼‍♀️ and keep yourself updated via the festival’s social media platforms:

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・・ACROSS FESTIVAL・・

September 7-8 2024 @ Musikhuset København
We’re proud to present our very own chamber music festival in Copenhagen! Read more about the concept of the festival here.

CLICK HERE to get your tickets!

Hope to see you there!

・・ @across.chambermusic

New Portrait Video!

Our new portrait video is out and you can watch it right here! Click below:

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Film produced by SCS Consultancy / Jan Flessel.

SINGLE DROP … now available on all streaming services!

We are hugely excited to release our brand new single – “Aria”! This brief yet mesmerizing composition by the Soviet-Polish composer Mieczysław Weinberg is a teaser for our debut album which will be recorded later this year, featuring pieces intimately connected to our quartet’s ethos and upbringing.

We stumbled across Weinberg’s “Aria” while searching for music that resonated with our ensemble’s identity and individual backgrounds. The piece felt like a perfect fit, especially given our violist’s Polish heritage and its reflection of our collective musical expression.

To record this work in the Salle Cortot in Paris was such an honour and for us the perfect start to our recording journey. We could not be more thrilled and excited for this process and can’t wait to share more music with our audience later this year!

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・ THANK YOU ・
Evidence Classics / SCS Collection for the collaboration
Salle Cortot for a wonderful hall to record in with Little Tribeca
SCS Consultancy / Jan Flessel (assisted by Mille Norvik) for the beautifully crafted video
The Danish Arts Foundation (Statens Kunstfond) for the invaluable support

Frozen Moments: The elusive music of Mette Nielsen

“A phenomenal disc , then: one of the finest of young quartets presenting the fascinating music of a major compositional talent.”

Colin Clarke has written a review of our album Frozen Moments. Read the full article here.

Rita Fernandes for The Strad

“The joyful stride of the Novo could not have been more different. Its rehearsal, although still disciplined, was filled with the musicians’ laughter and an eager exchange of feedback.”
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“It’s easy to say in retrospect because the Novo did end up winning, but as soon as the musicians played the first chord in the Mendelssohn Quartet no.2 in A minor, I knew they would. It was so pure, perfectly balanced, packed with musicality and yet so simple in its beauty. Although I thought the Nielsen was their best performance overall, it was the climaxes in the second movement of the Mendelssohn that gave me goosebumps.”

www.thestrad.com

Featured as VC Artists on The Violin Channel

In the upcoming period, we will be featured as VC Artists on The Violin Channel!
They will be sharing some of our memorable performances, and we will answer some questions to let you get to know us better. Check out their platforms to discover more!

www.theviolinchannel.com