Equinox Chamber Music Festival presents our opening concert “FOLK SONGS”, an evening of music exploring notions of home. Contemporary composers open the concert, with Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Four Pre-Inca Sketches” and Bo Holten’s “Clarinet Quintet”, a delicate and touching fantasy on a Danish folk melody. After Grazyna Bacewicz's playful "Quartet for Four Violins", the evening closes with Florence Price’s masterful String Quartet no.2, nostalgically evoking the thick summer air of her native American South.

The evening also includes two newly choreographed dance works, “Four Pre-Inca Sketches” by Tara Schaufuss and “Quartet for Four Violins” by Isabella Carroll. The pieces are commissioned as part of Equinox Festival’s Choreographic Laboratory, where dance artists collaborate with musicians in a cross-disciplinary creative process.

Equinox is an annual chamber music and dance festival uniting friends and artists of the highest calibre from across the world for one week of concerts in Copenhagen. On the program are masterpieces by underrepresented composers and newly created dance works by the festival ensemble.