Danish String Quartet

Prodigies rarely appear in the string quartet genre, but three of the four members of the Danish String Quartet began playing together as children. The group has impressed audiences in Denmark and abroad. The members of the Danish String Quartet -- Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (b. 1983), violin; Frederik Øland (b. 1984), violin; Asbjørn Nørgaard (b. 1984), viola; and Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin (b. 1982), cello -- met, with the exception of Sjölin, who joined the group in 2008, at a music summer camp. They were also soccer teammates. The musical connection stuck, and as teens, they for...