NJYD

Marie Sønderskov, flute
Anja Nedremo, saxophone
Mikkel Egelund Nielsen, guitar
Jonas Weitling, percussion

NJYD is a unique quartet which since their beginning in 2014 have been working on communicating new compositions in a relevant and captivating way. The untraditional crew: flute, saxophone, guitar, percussion creates new sounds and is the foundation for experiments which leads to development of the contemporary music. NJYD is working in frames away from the traditional concert hall and is reaching out to a young audience. The quartet performs both as musicians and organizers of contemporary concerts that include contemporary art and new technology. Added to this, the quartet has extensive experience with improvisation, partly as an element of new compositions, but also as a stand-alone concert concept. In 2018 NJYD completed the NJYD.NYT.NORDISK concert series, consisting of four collaborative projects with sound artist and composer, Alex Mørch, KOTTOS, baroque and pop concert with double bassist Erik Higgins and premiered pieces by young Polish composers. The 4 award-winning musicians are all educated soloists from The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, and for the past decade they have played a central role in the environment for new music in Aarhus, as well as they have played at countless international festivals. NJYD is also engaged in the compositional food chain, and is from 2018, the Artist in Residence at SPOR New Music School where the quartet coaches young upcoming composers.

NJYD has collaborated with a number of composers and premiered works by:

Bara Gisladottir (IS), Sunleif Rasmussen (FO), Löic Destremau (DK / FR), Christos Farmakis (GR/DK), Hans-Henrik Nordstrøm (DK), James Black (GB/DK), Jeppe Ernst (DK), Filip De Melo (S/DK), Rasmus Zwicki (DK), Jens Peter Møller (DK), Lasse Dan Hansen (DK), Kristin Boussard (S), Alex Mørch (DK), Rafal Ryterski (PL), Pawel Malinowski (PL), Marta Sniady (PL)

Visit their homepage: www.njydquartet.com