Magnus Fryklund

Magnus Fryklund

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…

Mads Pind Forsby

Mads Pind Forsby

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…

Louise Hjorth Hansen

Louise Hjorth Hansen

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…

Karen Bach

Karen Bach

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…

Ingrid Meidell Noodt

Ingrid Meidell Noodt

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…

Anne Holm-Nielsen

Anne Holm-Nielsen

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…

Thomas Storm

Thomas Storm

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Thomas Storm has performed with Odense Symphony on several occasions, both as a soloist and compère at a number of schools and family concerts. Most recently as a soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana. In 2009 he made his debut at The Royal Danish Theatre in the role of Moralès in…

Sofie Elkjær Jensen

Sofie Elkjær Jensen

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Sofie Elkjær Jensen started as a 17-year-old on Slagelse Basic Music Course – while also completely her upper secondary education. She completed both in 2005, and was accepted that same year at The Royal Danish Academy of Music. In 2009 she won 1st prize in the “Friends of Opera” competition…