Oscar Micaelsson

Oscar Micaelsson

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…

Lise Davidsen

Lise Davidsen

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Lise Davidsen has a bachelor’s degree from the Grieg Academy in Bergen and a master’s degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Music. She is studying under Susanna Eken at The Academy of Opera in Copenhagen. She has appeared with several Norwegian symphony orchestras, also as a soloist with the…

Kasper Rofelt

Kasper Rofelt

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Kasper Rofelt was born in 1982. He is a qualified composer and music theorist from The Royal Danish Academy of Music. Teaches composition, theory of music & ear training and musicology and is also active as a lecturer and mediator of music. His music has been performed in most of…

Jeppe Zeeberg

Jeppe Zeeberg

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…

Erik Kolind

Erik Kolind

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…

Berit Sørensen

Berit Sørensen

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…

Benedikte Damgaard

Benedikte Damgaard

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…

Antina Hugosson

Antina Hugosson

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,…

Stina Schmidt

Stina Schmidt

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2013 Stina Schmidt made her debut at The Royal Danish theatre as Flora in La Traviata, and later toured the country with the performance “Opera ind til benet”. In 2012 she could be heard as Cherubino in “The Marriage of Figaro”, Ophelia in Beach Edition and as the 3rd lady/boy in…

Niklas Walentin Jensen

Niklas Walentin Jensen

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…