Instrumentalists

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2021 In 2019 Steiney won an audition for a place in the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. In a way she had now gone full circle. Because many years earlier, when she was five, she had watched the same orchestra perform Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, which is still always played at…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2021 When Nikolai Vasili Nedergaard started his violin studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen in his late teens, he had no idea that already two years later he would be able to look back on concert trips to China, The Netherlands and around Scandinavia as well as…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2021 Mikkel started playing the guitar by coincidence. In his childhood home in northern Zealand there was a piano and a cheap guitar from a holiday to Spain, and in the end the guitar seemed most appealing after school hours. He probably thought he would end up making a living as…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2021 It was Josefine’s mother who taught her to walk, to make her own decisions, to follow her heart and fight for it. When she was young she gave up her career as an accordionist and studied law instead. However, she did return to music later and today makes a living…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2021 You could say that Britta is the result of a summer fling in the streets of Madrid long ago. On a train journey around Spain, Britta’s Swedish mother spotted the Argentinian-born street musician, who would later become Britta’s father. The romance was unavoidable. As a child, Britta was mainly interested…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2021 “It is much more important who is the music teacher in Kisvarda than who is the director of the opera house in Budapest. A poor director fails once, but a poor teacher risks killing the love of music in 30 generations of children.” Something along those lines was expressed by…