Coming up: the Norwegian premiere of the “Ice Quartet” written by Julian Anderson as part of Bodø 2024!

Julian Anderson is one of the leading composers of his generation, with a body of work characterised by vivid imagination, a powerful dramatic sense and exuberant, rapturous intensity. He has written for the world's greatest orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Boston Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic and Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Born in London in 1967, he studied with John Lambert, Alexander Goehr and Tristan Murail, and first came to prominence when his Orchestral Diptych (1990) won the RPS Composition Prize in 1992.

Anderson has held positions as Composer-in-Residence with the City of Birmingham Symphony, Cleveland orchestra and London Philharmonic orchestra, relationships that have yielded an impressive body of orchestral works, including Stations of the Sun (1998, a BBC Proms Commission) and Eden (2005, Cheltenham Festival). Fantasias (2009), written for the Cleveland Orchestra, won a British Composer Award and The Discovery of Heaven (2011), a co-commission by the New York Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Orchestra was awarded a South Bank Sky Arts Award. Both works were recorded under the LPO live label.

The Engegård Quartet is absolutely delighted with this commission, which they premiered at Brucknerhaus Linz in May 2024, and is thrilled to be able to give the Norwegian premiere in Bodø during Bodø2024, who is the co-commissioner of this work.

Julian Anderson's new work "Ice Quartet" for String Quartet will be performed together with masterpieces by Felix Mendelssohn and Ludwig van Beethoven.

18th August 2024, 7pm

Bodin kirke, Bodø

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