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 2022 Frederik Zeuthen was born in 1996 and grew up in Vig in Odsherred, Denmark. He started playing guitar at the age of seven and started composing jazz music at the age of 15. Currently, he is living in Malmö, where he is in the process of taking a master’s degree…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2022 Magnus Plejdrup was born in 1995 in Viborg and grew up in Randers, Denmark. He is a trained classical composer from the Conservatory in Aarhus and has studied orchestra conducting in Glasgow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. While doing his studies, Magnus has conducted e.g., Scottish Opera Orchestra and…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 Things are better when you make them yourself As the son of a crane driver and a school teacher there was nothing in Matias Vestergaard Hansen’s childhood to suggest that he would become a composer. However, Matias thinks he once heard that his grandfather was quite musical. Matias spent a…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 “I thrive with freedom!” Esben Nordborg Møller grew up on a farm in Central Jutland with three dogs, six cats and 28 cows. They only met other people, when the postman came by. His mother was a farmer, and his father was associate professor of Russian …. and a fan…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2018 Above all, my music must have a great sound There is a lot of duality in Mathias Monrad Møller’s life. He is bilingual and was raised in Denmark and Germany. He handles two very different musical worlds when performing as a lyrical tenor studying at the Opera Academy and when…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2016 Music and characters are a kind of choreography for the instruments Career so far After having trained and worked as a dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet, Martin Stauning (b. 1982) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in the soloist class under…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 (b. 1982) studied composition at The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg under Karl Aage Rasmussen, Hans Abrahamsen, Simon Steen-Andersen (2007-12) and in the soloist class at Norges Musikkhøgskole under Lasse Thoresen and Simon Steen-Andersen (2012-14). He also has a qualification in musicology and has taken private teaching in orchestral conducting….
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Pernille Sejlund was born in 1979. She studied at the University of Copenhagen’s division of musicology, and in composition at The Royal Danish Academy of Music. She has won prizes for her compositions and has several times been selected for UNM (Young Nordic Music). Pernille Sejlund has composed music for…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Kasper Rofelt was born in 1982. He is a qualified composer and music theorist from The Royal Danish Academy of Music. Teaches composition, theory of music & ear training and musicology and is also active as a lecturer and mediator of music. His music has been performed in most of…
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