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 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 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 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 2023 Vindtro Wind Quintet was launched in the spring of 2020 as a cosy project during the first Corona lockdown. The quintet then continued at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where they all studied with Max Artved as supervisor. Vindtro Wind Quintet consists of flautist Kristin Ýr Jónsdóttir (1996, Iceland),…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Kasper Grøn was born in Aalborg in 1991. At the age of nine, he started playing drums at Aalborg Garden, and in 2016 he received a bachelor’s degree in percussion from the Conservatory of Music of Southern Denmark. He has also studied at Johan Bridger at Sundsgården’s music line in…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Kristina Thede Johansen was born in the Faroe Islands in 1994. In 2012 she moved to Kolding, and in 2014 she was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music, where she has a bachelor’s degree and from where she made her debut as a soloist in 2023. In addition, she…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Michael Germer was born in Vanløse in 2002. He has been playing the violin since the age of three and started getting teaching at the age of five. Michael studied at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv and later in Vienna and at the soloist class at the…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Radu Ratoi was born in 1998 in Moldova but lives in Copenhagen today. He started playing the accordion when he was six and won his first competition at nine. Radu completed his bachelor’s studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen in 2021. He has been attending the…
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