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The NOVO Quartet made a lasting impression at the 2023 Geneva International Music Competition, earning first prize alongside four other awards. This recent achievement follows many others for the ensemble as they continue to showcase their years of dedication to music, which for each member began at ages 6 through 8.
A unifying factor for the ensemble—violinists Nikolai Vasili Nedergaard and Kaya Kato Møller, violist Daniel Śledziński and cellist Signe Ebstrup Bitsch—is their belief in the connectivity of music. Some of their most satisfying experiences have been witnessing the excitement of audiences less familiar with classical music, and then meeting them after a concert to discuss the performance. Even with composers as disparate as Felix Mendelssohn, Béla Bartók, and Carl Nielsen, the NOVO Quartet shows how music can link musicians and non-musicians alike.
Like most elite musicians, the members of the quartet attribute a lot of their success to the people in their lives who have helped make them better artists. Nedergaard gives a nod to his teachers, Alexandre Zapolski and Tim Frederiksen, as his inspiration; Møller likes to acknowledge his fellow quartet members; and Bitsch lists “colleagues, friends and teachers” as her source of motivation. Śledziński goes beyond individuals to include “concerts and experiences” that drive him to become a better musician.
Addressing the question of stage fright, Møller says: “When I get nervous, I feel comforted by the feeling of the three others on the stage with me.” This interconnectivity buoys the quartet as they perform and travel across the world, including trips to Columbia and Iceland in the coming season.
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