Lil Lacy

Lil Lacy

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 Lifted by the wind Air has been playing a role in Lil Lacy’s professional life for a long time. Both the air that surrounds us and that we breathe, and the air at higher altitudes. Her latest work for accordion, Løftet af vinden (Lifted by the wind), came into being…

Helle Gössler

Helle Gössler

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 She who laughs last sings best! As a child Helle Gössler both played the accordion, the clarinet and the saxophone in music school. She also sang in a children’s choir despite her two older sisters saying she didn’t sing very well. According to them her singing was both too powerful,…

Clara Cecilie Thomsen

Clara Cecilie Thomsen

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 An entire school life of singing – now on her own two feet Ever since Clara Cecilie Thomsen started third grade at Sankt Annæ Gymnasium’s primary school, her days have been filled with organised singing. At the singing school in Valby, the pupils have many singing and choir lessons each…

Daniel Davidsen

Daniel Davidsen

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2017 Microphones are my instruments It is not technique but a desire to achieve the best musical productions that draw Daniel Davidsen into the field of audio engineering. I’m on the right track These prizes confirm that what I am doing is okay. It has convinced me that I just need to…

Lea Quortrup

Lea Quortrup

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2016 A teacher lured Lea Quortrup away from jazz with a CD by Wunderlich ‏‏‎ ‎ ‏‏‎ ‎ Lea Quortrup (b. 1987) graduated from the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg RAMA, in 2011, and studied from 2012-15 at the Opera Academy in Copenhagen under Kirsten Buhl-Møller. Throughout her study, she has…

Frederik Rolin

Frederik Rolin

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2016 Frederik Rolin (b. 1988) was taught by Kirsten Buhl Møller at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and is now studying at the Opera Academy in Copenhagen. He has appeared in Ravel’s opera L’enfant et les Sortileges at RDAM and has sung the role of Schaunard in La Bohème at…

Morten Grove Frandsen

Morten Grove Frandsen

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 Morten Grove Frandsen (b. 1987) began his studies in 2007 under Hanna Hjort at MGK Frederiksberg. In 2010, he was accepted as a student at RDAM, where he first studied under Jens Krogsgaard and completed his BA under Kirsten Buhl Møller. In 2012, he decided to change from baritone to…

Anna Maria Wierød

Anna Maria Wierød

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 Anna Maria Wierød has completed the soloist class and holds an MA in classical singing and Renaissance vocal ensemble from The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Hochschule für Künste Bremen and Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. She has studied under Anthony Rooley, Evelyn Tubb, Bodil Øland, Harry van der Kamp and Lars…

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…

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…