Instrumentalists

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Erik Kolind was born in 1985 and started his musical career in the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir. In 2009 he completed the master’s programme in improvisation and organ at The Royal Danish Academy of Music. And in 2012 he completed the diploma programme in organ improvisation and music theory at…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Berit Sørensen was born in 1980. She has studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, The Norwegian Academy of Music and The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, where she made her debut from the soloist class in 2013. She has also studied under Marie Luise Neunecker in Berlin and…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Benedikte Damgaard was born in 1986. She made her debut in January 2014 from the soloist class at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, having studied the violin under Serguei Azizian, and chamber music with the Copenhagen Piano Quartet under Jens Elvekjær and Tim Frederiksen. She made her debut as…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Antina Hugosson started to play the violin at the age of four in Kristianstad, Sweden. During her violin studies at Malmö Academy of Music she played the baroque violin under Peter Spissky, later specialising in early music under Enrico Gatti and Ryo Terakado at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague,…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2013 Niklas Walentin Jensen gained 2nd prize in The International Carl Nielsen Violin Competition in 2012, where he also received the prize for the best interpretation of Carl Nielsen’s works and for the best interpretation of Ib Nørholm’s “Ménage à trois”. At the finale concerts he was the soloist with the…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2013 In 2006, Magnus Fryklund began to study piano under Bengt Anderson, cello under Per Helders and composition under Sven David Sandström at the Academy of Music in Falun, Sweden. In 2010, he gained entry to The Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he studied under Amalie Malling, and the following…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2013 Mads Forsby (b. 1985) can already boast a wide-ranging career as a musician and composer. He is interested in sound installations and film music and plays drums in numerous different contexts. His activities derive from an unorthodox approach to improvisation, exploration of sound and noise and diverse manipulations of the…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2013 Copenhagen Piano Quartet is a young piano quartet with roots in Denmark, the Czech Republic and Poland. The quartet was formed in 2010 and studies as an ensemble in the soloist class with Tim Frederiksen and Jens Elvekjær at The Royal Danish Academy of Music. In 2011, Copenhagen Piano Quartet…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 As a soloist and chamber player, Louise Hjorth Hansen has played concerts at home and abroad. Her focus on playing concerts of an experimental nature has led to a collaboration with composers, jazz and electronic musicians where a sound world is created of floating, hypnotic and improvising sound collages. She…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2013 In 2002-2007 Karen Bach studied at the Danish Academy of Rhythmic Music in Copenhagen. Since then she has worked as a pianist, composer and arranger of her own and other people’s projects, including Three Trios, the electropop quartet Next to Beluga and the New York trio Bach/Froman/Gregor as well as…