LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 AKELA String Quartet was formed by four friends Clara Glasdam (violin), Gustav Ranum (violin), Kirsten Wilbrandt Kjær (viola) and Oskar Reuben Friis-Hansen (cello) in the autumn of 2019 before Covid-19 took hold and left the streets deserted. The four students at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, who have also…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 In addition to being a soprano, Christine Bach Tofft (born 1995 in Mørkhøj) also excels as a music educator. Since childhood, among other things, she has been involved in hymn singing due to her mother’s profession as an organist, and she has known that she wanted to pursue something in…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 The Italian pianist Marco Pomelli was born and raised in Padua in northeastern Italy. At the age of 10, he was admitted to the conservatory in his hometown, which accepts talented young musicians at a very young age. This resulted in immense pressure on Marco, which he fortunately managed to…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 Christina Sofia af Klinteberg Herresthal was born in Oslo in 1997, where she grew up with music close to her heart. She grew up in the Norwegian National Opera Children’s Choir and Barratt Due Young Talents in Oslo. The young mezzo-soprano with a penchant for chamber music studied at the…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 For Christian Skovlund (1999) from Farum, the musical journey began with the oboe at Furesø Music School, where he started at the age of nine. Despite the nickname Oboe-Christian, he hadn’t actually planned for the oboe to lead to a professional career, although he played in both the Sankt Annæ…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 Elise Busch-Madsen, born in 2002 and raised in Slangerup, has been closely associated with the flute since she started school. Initially, she spent six years playing the recorder before transitioning to the transverse flute. The flute has been Elise’s sanctuary since childhood, and today, she plays, among other ensembles, with…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 Kirsten Voss Petersen (born in 1995 in Silkeborg) started attending baby rhythmics classes when she was just six months old. At the age of six, Kirsten joined a children’s choir, and from the age of 11, when she began classical singing lessons, she knew she wanted to become an opera…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 Athanasia Kotronia was born in Greece in 2000. At the age of five, she moved to Sweden, where she began playing the clarinet a few years later. By the time she was 14, she had composed her first piece. After studying composition at the music high school Musikkonservatoriet Falun in…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 Norwegian August Schieldrop was born in Oslo in 1999, and since the age of ten, he has fallen in love with the tuba after first playing baritone horn and French horn. In Oslo, he attended Majorstua Music School and the Barratt Due Music Institute, while he took a higher education…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 For the classical singer Asmus Hanke Frederiksen (born 1997 in Copenhagen), meeting his wife at their shared folk high school and working at the local McDonald’s were crucial factors in shaping him into the singer he is today. Both experiences involved digging deep within himself to explore what he wanted…
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