LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 In addition to being a soprano, Christine Bach Tofft (born 1995 in Mørkhøj) also excels as a music educator. Since childhood, among other things, she has been involved in hymn singing due to her mother’s profession as an organist, and she has known that she wanted to pursue something in…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 Christina Sofia af Klinteberg Herresthal was born in Oslo in 1997, where she grew up with music close to her heart. She grew up in the Norwegian National Opera Children’s Choir and Barratt Due Young Talents in Oslo. The young mezzo-soprano with a penchant for chamber music studied at the…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 Kirsten Voss Petersen (born in 1995 in Silkeborg) started attending baby rhythmics classes when she was just six months old. At the age of six, Kirsten joined a children’s choir, and from the age of 11, when she began classical singing lessons, she knew she wanted to become an opera…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2024 For the classical singer Asmus Hanke Frederiksen (born 1997 in Copenhagen), meeting his wife at their shared folk high school and working at the local McDonald’s were crucial factors in shaping him into the singer he is today. Both experiences involved digging deep within himself to explore what he wanted…
LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Louise McClelland Jacobsen was born in 1997 in Copenhagen and has a Danish/New Zealand background. After MGK, she was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, the Opera Academy in Copenhagen, and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. In addition, Louise has been a soloist with the Danish National…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2022 Johana Maria Nylund is born in 1992 in Lappeerante in Finland and is now living in Copenhagen. Johanna has a bachelor’s degree in music pedagogy from Savonia University of Applied Sciences in Finland and a master’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Today, she is part of the…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2022 Martin Møller Vilbrand was born in 1989 and grew up on Amager. His musical background started at Sankt Annæ Gymnasium, where he spent both his primary school and high school time. Martin then took MGK in Frederiksberg and has since been trained as an opera singer at the Royal Danish…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2021 When Sophie debuted as a mezzo-soprano on the opera scene at the Royal Danish Theatre on Holmen, it was not as part of a classic by Mozart or Puccini. It was, in fact, a recent operatic interpretation of Janne Teller’s youth novel Intet, where Sophie sang one of the leading…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2021 Katinka does not come from a home filled with classical music. She does, however, come from a home full of sing-song. Her parents taught music and also started a private independent school at home in Himmerland where Katinka and her three siblings made up about 10% of the pupils. Here…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 An unusual journey When Nicolai Elsberg later this year becomes part of the Royal Danish Theatre’s soloist ensemble and sings his first great role as Sarastro in The Magic Flute, it would be easy to think that it was the initial culmination of a strictly planned, dead straight career plan….
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