Fri 30 Jan 2026 20:30 - 22:00
FOLK
Engegård Quartet + North Sea String Quartet
Engegard Quartet (photo Lars Bryngelsson)

FOLK

Engegård Quartet + North Sea String Quartet
Fri 30 Jan 2026 20:30 - 22:00
Fri 30 Jan 2026
20:30 - 22:00
  • Fri 30 Jan 2026
    20:30 - 22:00
    Bimhuis

Program

Folk music from Norway and improvisation

Credits

Engegård Quartet:
Arvid Engegård violin
Laura Custodio Sabas violin
Juliet Jopling viola
Jan Clemens Carlsen cello

North Sea String Quartet:
George Dumitriu violin
Pablo Rodríguez violin
Yanna Pelser viola
Thomas van Geelen cello

Colourful folk melodies from Norway and improvisation

A first: the Norwegian Engegård Quartet and the North Sea String Quartet from The Netherlands together on one stage! The North Sea String Quartet’s greatest love is improvisation, which will merge with the folk music the Engegård brings along. This double string ensemble is ideally suited to translate the layering of improvisation, folk melodies and their rhythms into an intimate and sophisticated context. Traditional Norwegian melodies and the organic playing of the North Sea String Quartet will meld into a colorful whole.  

The Engegård Quartet has its roots in the Lofoten Islands, the magnificent Norwegian archipelago where silence is interrupted only by the wind that is always howling around the mountain peaks. The contrast of this vast landscape with the bustling port city of Rotterdam, home to the North Sea String Quartet where all kinds of cultures come together as well as an international hotspot of modern architecture, cannot but leave its mark in the collaboration of both quartets.