Alva Holm

Alva Holm

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 Born to be a classical musician  Alva was destined to have a musical career as more or less everyone in the family works with classical music in one way or another. Her mother used to be a professional cellist, and her brother, Elias Holm, is a pianist. He received the…

Kaya Kato Møller

Kaya Kato Møller

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 A daring new year’s resolution  When Kaya was 10 years old, she made a daring new year’s resolution to her Japanese-born mother. She promised that she would start practising her violin four hours a day. One and a half of these would be before school in the morning. In Japan…

Victor Koch Jensen

Victor Koch Jensen

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 Santa Claus started the trumpeter’s career Victor Koch Jensen does not just come from a home with music, but from a home filled with woodwind instruments. Both parents are clarinettists, and Victor’s brother is a bassoonist with the Royal Danish Orchestra. He could therefore appear somewhat like the family’s black…

Ventus

Ventus

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 Play music, have fun and enjoy! Clarinettist Louise Anine Kempf Mogensen is from Hedehusene. Flutist Michaela Hansen is from Malmö. They met at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, and, one day in 2017, Michaela called Louise and suggested that they formed a duo and entered a competition in Japan….

Ramez Mhaanna

Ramez Mhaanna

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 From Nørrebro ghetto to piano talent in Moscow Growing up in a Nørrebro ghetto area as an immigrant child of a Russian mother and a Lebanese father while also playing classical piano was never easy for Ramez. His friends did not understand why he always had to play that instrument….

Nikolaj Henriques

Nikolaj Henriques

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 The bassoonist who lives in the moment Nikolaj Henriques actually started playing the clarinet. When he saw the Tivoli Youth Guard marching in their handsome uniforms, he badgered his parents to let him register for the admission test. He got in and, at the age of 6, he started his…

Christine Bernsted

Christine Bernsted

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 Art and culture help Christine find the passion of music When Christine Bernsted starts rehearsing a composition, she often dives into the period when the composition was made. She visits museums and looks at art or reads literature from the same place and period as the composition. When visiting Vienna…

Vera Panitch

Vera Panitch

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2018 I love to be part of an orchestra with the possibility of playing solo As a child, Vera both played the violin and the piano. Her level of playing the piano was higher than the violin, but when she had to choose, she chose the violin. There were several musicians…

Niklas Johansen

Niklas Johansen

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2018 When playing a concert, it’s not about me but the music Recently, Niklas Johansen played the first movement of Koyunbaba by Carlo Domeniconis. He is sitting as if he is in another world, and more than 20 seconds pass before he looks up and lets go of his guitar. When…