Instrumentalists

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2021 When Amalie moved to Vienna at the age of 21, she only meant to stay for about a year. However, she soon realised that one year would not be enough. Now, five years later, she has graduated as a violinist. She is still living in Vienna where she now needs…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 Clown, chef or Michael Jackson As a young child, Nicholas Algot Swensen wanted to be a clown. As he never does things by half, he invented different clown characters down to the very last detail and bought costumes and props in specialty stores to be able to live out his…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 A pianist by chance Throughout most of Lea Han’s childhood the idea was that she should study medicine. When she was sent to piano lessons at the age of six it was mainly because she needed to do something else apart from school. Lea’s Chinese parents believed that the piano…

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….

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 The dilemma faced by a competitive musician With a father who is a classically trained guitarist, a mother who is a radio host on the Danish DR P2 channel and a younger brother who plays the cello, Adam was exposed to a lot of classical music throughout his childhood. It…

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…

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…