Vindtro

Vindtro

LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Vindtro Wind Quintet was launched in the spring of 2020 as a cosy project during the first Corona lockdown. The quintet then continued at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where they all studied with Max Artved as supervisor. Vindtro Wind Quintet consists of flautist Kristin Ýr Jónsdóttir (1996, Iceland),…

Kasper Grøn

Kasper Grøn

LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Kasper Grøn was born in Aalborg in 1991. At the age of nine, he started playing drums at Aalborg Garden, and in 2016 he received a bachelor’s degree in percussion from the Conservatory of Music of Southern Denmark. He has also studied at Johan Bridger at Sundsgården’s music line in…

Michael Germer

Michael Germer

LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Michael Germer was born in Vanløse in 2002. He has been playing the violin since the age of three and started getting teaching at the age of five. Michael studied at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv and later in Vienna and at the soloist class at the…

Radu Ratoi

Radu Ratoi

LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Radu Ratoi was born in 1998 in Moldova but lives in Copenhagen today. He started playing the accordion when he was six and won his first competition at nine. Radu completed his bachelor’s studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen in 2021. He has been attending the…

Kristian Riisager

Kristian Riisager

LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Kristian Riisager was born in 1996 and grew up in Ulstrup in Favrskov Municipality. Kristian has played piano since the age of seven. In 2020, he received a bachelor’s degree from the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, after which he began his master’s degree at the Royal Danish Academy of…

Absalon String Quartet

Absalon String Quartet

LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Absalon String Quartet was formed in 2020 and consists of violinist Thera Maya Brask Ortved (2000), violinist Andreas Peter Lienhøft Larsen (1999), violist Alva Maria Linnea Rasmussen (1998, Sweden) and cellist Olga Chwaszczewska (1996, Poland). Absalon String Quartet has won both the Rued Langgaard Competition 2021 and this year’s P2…

Ruben Høgh

Ruben Høgh

LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Ruben Høgh was born in 1996 in York to Danish parents. He grew up in Aarhus, and with his mother as his teacher, he started playing the piano at the age of eight. In 2020, he received a bachelor’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he will finish…

EMILIE RAVN JENSEN

EMILIE RAVN JENSEN

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2022 Emilie Ravn Jensen was born in 1999 in Lavik in Norway. She is this year’s youngest Talent Award recipient but despite her age, she has managed to get into Copenhagen Phil. Previously, she has been studying at Norges Musikhøgskole in Oslo and The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen….