Instrumentalists

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2016 After graduating from the Royal Danish Academy of Music where she studied under Niklas Sivelöv, Elisabeth Holmegaard Nielsen was admitted to the soloist class studying under Marianna Shirinyan and to Universität für Musik in Vienna under Christopher Hinterhuber. https://vimeo.com/161013869 She will make her debut in 2017. Elisabeth Holmegaard Nielsen has…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 Troels Roland Completed his MA (with top marks) at The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus,. At present he is studying in the soloist class at RDAM under Anne Øland, Søren Rastogi and Friedrich Gürtler. Troels is active as an accompanist and chamber musican, and in August 2014 he performed Schubert’s…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 Theodor Lyngstad was born in 1993 in Trondheim, Norway. He is in his 3rd year at RDAM, studying under Morten Zeuthen. He is an active chamber musician and is a member of the Alba String Quartet. As a member of the string trio Trio Patetico, he was named musician of…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 (b. 1989) works as an electronic musician/composer and percussionist, with his base in Copenhagen. In recent years, he has focused on solo projects, gaining considerable inspiration from both earlier and contemporary experimental electronic/electro-acoustic music. In 2014, he started his own label and his own artistic platform, arbitrary. This has resulted…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 Elias Holm (b. 1996) started to play the piano under Mark Schneider and Tove Lønskov. At present, he is studying under Amalie Malling at RDAM. He won a gold medal in the Berlingske Classical Music Competition and also won the Danish Steinway Festival. In 2013, he gained the Grand Prix…

éonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 August Finkas (b. 1993) started to play the clarinet at the age of 11 in the Tivoli Boys’ Guard, continuing his clarinet studies under Klaus Tönshoff at Sankt Annæ MGK. Since 2013, he has studied under John Kruse at The Roal Danish Academy of Music (RDAM). He has also taken…

éonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 was born and grew up in Drammen, Norway. She started her musical studies under Claus Olesen at The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg and holds a BA and MA in classical saxophone. She is now in the soloist class at the same academy. She has also studied under Lars Mlekusch…

éonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Maria Steinaa was born in 1993. She started playing the flute at the age of nine at Sankt Annæ Gymnasium, continuing at MGK (musical basic programme). At the age of 17, she was accepted as a student at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, with Toke Lund Christiansen as her…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Oscar Micaelsson was born in 1990 in Göteborg, Sweden. He studies at The Royal Danish Academy of Music and will complete his master’s degree (piano) in 2014. He is active within jazz and improvisation, and in 2012 he performed John Cage’s piano concerto for prepared piano and sinfonietta. He has…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Jeppe Zeeberg was born in 1988. He has a master’s degree from Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium (2013) and is an active member of the groups Dødens Garderobe, Horse Orchestra, The Roll-Ons and Bird Alert. He has collaborated with John Tchicai, Andrew D’Angelo, Kresten Osgood among others, and has organised events for avant-garde…