OpenDays Festival: CIKADA String Quartet

Once again, Waves up North warmly welcomes you to the OpenDays Festival - a 3-day festival for new composed music and sound art, held this year for the 17th year in a row. Welcome to a curious encounter with the boundary-pushing, the different, the latest! Waves up North is proud to present: Cikada String Quartet (Norway) - Karin Hellqvist, violin - Guro Asheim, violin - Bendik Foss, viola - Ingvild Nesdal Sandnes, cello PROGRAMME: - Øyvind Torvund (b. 1976): Fem stykker for strykekvartett (2025) - Kristine Tjøgersen (b. 1982): Habitat II (2023) - Jan Martin Smørdal (b. 1976): Reverse Alarm Variations for string quartet & speakers (2018) The programme is subject to change. TICKETS: Admission: 150 kr. (Festival pass for the whole festival 250 kr.) Students: 75 kr. (Festival pass 125 kr.) Under 18s: Free admission Members: Free admission Festival passes and tickets for individual concerts can be bought via Billetto and, as always, at the door. See the rest of the festival programme under the event on Facebook or on Waves up North's website, www.wavesupnorth.dk. OpenDays Festival is a project under Waves up North, an international forum for new music and sound art based in Aalborg. OPENDAYS FESTIVAL 2026 IS SUPPORTED BY: A. P. Møller Fonden Augustinus Fonden Dansk Tennis Fond Gudrun & Palle Mørchs Mindefond Kemp & Lauritzen Fonden Knud Højgaards Fond Nordea-fonden Solistforeningen af 1921 Statens Kunstfond Toyota-Fonden William Demant Fonden Aage & Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond Aalborg Kommune THIS CONCERT IS ADDITIONALLY SUPPORTED BY: Music Norway Det Norske Komponistfond Oslo Kommune Kulturrådet

• Cikada String Quartet