Jonas Egholm

Jonas Egholm

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 A broken arm There are in particular two advantages to playing the guitar if you ask Jonas Egholm. First of all a guitar is cheaper than for instance wind instruments and bassoons. And secondly there is often a guitar in the corner that you can play when you visit people….

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,…

Alva Holm

Alva Holm

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 Born to be a classical musician  Alva was destined to have a musical career as more or less everyone in the family works with classical music in one way or another. Her mother used to be a professional cellist, and her brother, Elias Holm, is a pianist. He received the…

Kaya Kato Møller

Kaya Kato Møller

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 A daring new year’s resolution  When Kaya was 10 years old, she made a daring new year’s resolution to her Japanese-born mother. She promised that she would start practising her violin four hours a day. One and a half of these would be before school in the morning. In Japan…

Victor Koch Jensen

Victor Koch Jensen

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 Santa Claus started the trumpeter’s career Victor Koch Jensen does not just come from a home with music, but from a home filled with woodwind instruments. Both parents are clarinettists, and Victor’s brother is a bassoonist with the Royal Danish Orchestra. He could therefore appear somewhat like the family’s black…

Ventus

Ventus

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 Play music, have fun and enjoy! Clarinettist Louise Anine Kempf Mogensen is from Hedehusene. Flutist Michaela Hansen is from Malmö. They met at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, and, one day in 2017, Michaela called Louise and suggested that they formed a duo and entered a competition in Japan….

Ramez Mhaanna

Ramez Mhaanna

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 From Nørrebro ghetto to piano talent in Moscow Growing up in a Nørrebro ghetto area as an immigrant child of a Russian mother and a Lebanese father while also playing classical piano was never easy for Ramez. His friends did not understand why he always had to play that instrument….

Nikolaj Henriques

Nikolaj Henriques

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 The bassoonist who lives in the moment Nikolaj Henriques actually started playing the clarinet. When he saw the Tivoli Youth Guard marching in their handsome uniforms, he badgered his parents to let him register for the admission test. He got in and, at the age of 6, he started his…