The members of BRICO Collective – Anna Bignami, Thomas Cortes and Tom Irvine – have each written a new work for string quartet to be premiered at this concert.<\/p>\n
BRICO\u2019s composers met as students on the Rhythmic Composition masters at RAMA in Aarhus. Though they come from predominantly rhythmic backgrounds, all make use of classical instrumentation in their various projects that span pop, folk, electronic, and jazz.<\/p>\n
For this concert they will instead work with a purely classical ensemble, the Absalon String Quartet, and apply the musical characteristics of their different disciplines in the classical world.<\/p>\n
Absalon Quartet is an award-winning string quartet based in Copenhagen. Like BRICO\u2019s composers, Absalon\u2019s musicians are not from strictly classical backgrounds, with their diverse influences and experience bringing a fresh and exciting energy to the quartet format. They were the winners of the Rued Langgaard competition in 2021, and in 2023 received the L\u00e9onie Sonnings Talent Prize in addition to winning P2\u2019s Chamber Music Competition.<\/p>\n