Instrumentalists

LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Kristian Riisager was born in 1996 and grew up in Ulstrup in Favrskov Municipality. Kristian has played piano since the age of seven. In 2020, he received a bachelor’s degree from the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, after which he began his master’s degree at the Royal Danish Academy of…

LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Absalon String Quartet was formed in 2020 and consists of violinist Thera Maya Brask Ortved (2000), violinist Andreas Peter Lienhøft Larsen (1999), violist Alva Maria Linnea Rasmussen (1998, Sweden) and cellist Olga Chwaszczewska (1996, Poland). Absalon String Quartet has won both the Rued Langgaard Competition 2021 and this year’s P2…

LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Anna Sofie Bennike was born in 1998 in Copenhagen. She first started playing the oboe at 16, but quickly showed talent, and she was admitted to MGK two years later and after another two years at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Since then, she has been accepted…

LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Ruben Høgh was born in 1996 in York to Danish parents. He grew up in Aarhus, and with his mother as his teacher, he started playing the piano at the age of eight. In 2020, he received a bachelor’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he will finish…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2022 Emilie Ravn Jensen was born in 1999 in Lavik in Norway. She is this year’s youngest Talent Award recipient but despite her age, she has managed to get into Copenhagen Phil. Previously, she has been studying at Norges Musikhøgskole in Oslo and The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen….

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2022 Isabella Bania is born in 1989 and grew up in Gøteborg in Sweden and is now living in Copenhagen. Isabelle was 6 years old when she held a violin for the first time. She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the University of the Arts, Berlin. She…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2022 Katrin Raasthøj Mathiesen was born in 1997 and grew up in Greve, Denmark. She started playing the clarinet when she was seven years old at Greve Municipal Music School. She has since taken a bachelor’s degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, been on an exchange at the Conservatoire…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2022 Lorenzo Colombo is born in 1990 in Milano and is now living in Copenhagen. He has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in percussion from the Royal Danish Academy of Music. In addition to being a prize winner at DKDM for his reflection assignment “KONTAKTE – reflections towards a new chamber…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2022 Tony Nguyen was born in Esbjerg in 1992 and grew up in Aarhus, Denmark. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with stays in Lithuania and Sweden. Currently, Tony attends the Jutland Conservatory of Music in the soloist class, and in addition to his studies, Tony…