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This year's season ends with a meeting between the Engegård Quartet and one of the Nordic countries' most prominent musical personalities: Olli Mustonen . The Finnish pianist, composer and conductor has for decades been compared to figures such as Rachmaninov and Busoni — musicians who have not been limited to just one role in the musical world.

The Engegård Quartet has a close relationship with Mustonen as a composer. They premiered his first string quartet, and a few years ago they recorded his piano quintet with Mustonen at the piano. The Strad described the recording as “carried forward with biting power, conviction and technical ease”. This Sunday they bring this work to us.

The program is framed by Beethoven's beautiful Harp Quartet and Brahms' dramatic Violin Sonata in D minor — with Arvid Engegård in collaboration with Olli Mustonen. Welcome to the season finale!

Arvid Engegård violin
Amanda Håøy Horn violin
Juliet Jopling viola
Jan Clemens Carlsen cello
Olli Mustonen piano

Duration approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes including interval.

• Concert program

  Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827)
  String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 74 'The Harp'

  Johannes Brahms (1833—1897)
  Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108

  Olli Mustonen (b. 1967)
  Piano Quintet (2014)

• About the performers

  Finnish Olli Mustonen is considered one of the most distinctive musicians of his generation — an artist who combines the roles of pianist, composer and conductor in a way that few others of our time do. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1987 after winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and has since performed with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw, the Chicago Symphony and all the London orchestras. His recording of Shostakovich's and Alkan's preludes won both the Gramophone Award and the Edison Award in 1992, and in 2019 he received the Hindemith Prize. Since 2021 he has been the artistic director and chief conductor of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. As a composer, he moves in a landscape where neo-baroque, neo-classicism and romanticism meet.

  "One of the most interesting musicians in Finland (…) who creates surprises, intensities and astonishments that are anything but everyday in the music world."
  — Süddeutsche Zeitung

  The Engegård Quartet was formed under the midnight sun in Lofoten in 2005 and has since established itself as one of Norway's leading chamber ensembles. The quartet is known for its bold and fresh interpretations of the classical core repertoire, while also highlighting its Scandinavian origins through a close relationship with Norwegian contemporary music and commissioned works from composers such as Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, Lasse Thoresen, and Olli Mustonen. The quartet consists of Arvid Engegård (first violin), Amanda Håøy Horn (second violin), Juliet Jopling (viola), and Jan Clemens Carlsen (cello). They have performed on central European stages such as the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Rudolfinum in Prague, and are known for their close connection to the Bergen International Festival, Oslo Chamber Music Festival, and Lofoten International Chamber Music Festival — the latter founded by Arvid Engegård himself. The Strad has described their playing as «breathtaking».

We wish you an enjoyable, unique concert experience with us. Welcome!

Photo: Laura Malmivaara (Mustonen) / Lars Bryngelsson (Engegård Quartet)