Instrumentalists

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2013 Ingrid Meidell Noodt has assisted in The Royal Danish Orchestra, The Copenhagen Philharmonic, DR UnderholdningsOrkestret, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and Västerås Sinfonietta. In 2011 she won 2nd prize as well as the jury’s special prize in the Danish Radio P2 Chamber Music Competition together with the wind quintet Mazvila Winds. In…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Anne Holm-Nielsen gained her BA from The Royal Danish Academy of Music, where she studied under Tove Lønskov, Anne Øland and Tim Frederiksen. In 2012 she made her debut with chamber music and accompaniment as her special subjects from The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Aarhus, where she was…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Rasmus Schjærff gained a summa cum laude in his final examination at The Royal Danish Academy of Music and now studies in the soloist class there. He has won prizes at international competitions in Italy (Val Tidone) and German (Bensheim), has played solo and chamber music at international and Danish…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 In June 2011 Philip Schmidt-Madsen, as the first Dane for 19 years, won 1st prize at The International Carl Nielsen Organ Competition, and was also awarded the “Commotio Prize” for the best interpretation of Carl Nielsen’s organ work Commotio. He regularly cooperates with a large number of choirs and orchestras…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 In 2006, Magnus Koch Jensen won the gold medal in the Berlingske Tidende Music Competition. That same year, he was awarded the Hans Peter Nielsen grant and the Jacob Gade Talent Prize. The following year, he was awarded the Rødovre Music Prize of DKK 30,000. On four occasions he has…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Since gaining his BA at the Danish Academy of Rhythmic Music Lars Greve has put on a number of spectacular cultural projects at home and abroad. These include improvisation concerts with Kresten Osgood at atypical venues in Holstebro Municipality, a tour in China with the band Girls in Airports and,…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Julia Dahlkvist started playing the piano at the age of three, with her mother, Midia Mustonen, as her teacher. After the family moved to Finland – when she was 16 – she studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. She took her diploma…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Alexander McKenzie made his debut in 2005 at the age of 16 with an orchestra in Sydney as the soloist in Grieg’s piano concerto. Since then he has appeared as soloist with the Southern Jutland Symphony Orchestra, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and has done many concerts in Copenhagen, New York…