Chamber Folk – from the borderland between folk music and classic.

Danish Fiddle Quartet is a new string quartet formed by violinist Jørgen Dickmeiss. The quartet plays new Nordic folk music.

The new ensemble is growing stronger all the time. They played at Windros Festival (DE) and Davinde Festival (DK) this summer with great success and we were nominated as “New Roots Name of the Year at DMA 2024” and released their debut album “Nattens favn” at Tønder Festival (DK) in 2023.

 The music moves in the border between the classical tradition and folk music and has a foot and heart in both genres.

With this new string quartet, Jørgen Dickmeiss lives out an old dream of playing chamber music and has assembled a quartet consisting of two classical musicians and two folk musicians. The quartet plays newly written compositions and arrangements of Nordic folk melodies and by Carl Nielsen.

The quartet consists of violinists Jørgen Dickmeiss and Ditte Fromseier Hockings, who are both well-known and well-established names on the Danish and international folk music scene, as well as Bruno Sanches and Mathilde Helding on viola and cello, respectively, from the young Danish classical elite. The quartet’s two singers, Ditte Fromseier and Jørgen Dickmeiss, can also be heard in several of the pieces.

Reviewers have received us very well:

“In short, a fine, versatile record, on which the playing is simply superb. Can one expect much more? I didn’t think so and for a piece like the closing Læsehesten (Reading Horse) you can always wake me up, that’s a song you would like to be able to write yourself. Lacking that talent, I’ll just listen to it again and again, but that’s anything but a punishment.”
rootstime.be, Belgium by Dani Heyvaert

“It’s a top-notch cast. And an album of just as high class. It’s all chamber music, new folk music – the transitions between the two genres are fluid. Particularly beautiful are the two songs sung by Ditte and Jørgen (“Peace of the Night” and “The Embrace of the Night”). ” FolkMagasin, Germany by Martin Czech

“Open-minded listeners, from both the folk and classical worlds, can indulge in well-executed sound. ” Rootszone, Nils ThorlundA