Instrumentalists

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…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 Art and culture help Christine find the passion of music When Christine Bernsted starts rehearsing a composition, she often dives into the period when the composition was made. She visits museums and looks at art or reads literature from the same place and period as the composition. When visiting Vienna…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 While others danced to pop music, Anne Sofie danced to Vivaldi It started with a toy piano from her parents when she was one. At the beginning, she was only strumming, but later she found out that she could play small melodies, and it did not take long before the…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2018 I love to be part of an orchestra with the possibility of playing solo As a child, Vera both played the violin and the piano. Her level of playing the piano was higher than the violin, but when she had to choose, she chose the violin. There were several musicians…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2018 When playing a concert, it’s not about me but the music Recently, Niklas Johansen played the first movement of Koyunbaba by Carlo Domeniconis. He is sitting as if he is in another world, and more than 20 seconds pass before he looks up and lets go of his guitar. When…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2018 Played air cello until allowed to play the violin Marthe grew up on a vegetable farm in Norway, and this is perhaps the reason why she prefers participating in festivals and master classes which are located close to beautiful nature. She can then rehearse with a quartet in the morning…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2018 The broad-shouldered prisoners were my best audience ever Kern Westerberg lives with three other musicians in an apartment at Jakob Gade student residence in Copenhagen. The residence has a rehearsal room to use if you need a little more space, but as all residents are musicians, nobody complains about noise…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2018 I pursue development as a human, not a specific performance There is no doubt about Gustav’s idol among composers; if you meet Gustav at a concert, a dip into his pocket will reveal who. Gustav – usually – carries with him a small bust of his idol: Beethoven: Also, when…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2018 I dream about making music flow without too much interference It was somehow a coincidence that I started playing the piano, says Christian Grøvlen. We had a piano at home and one day when I was sitting playing for myself, my mother asked if I would like to take lessons. I…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2018 I preferred football but then I heard Prokofiev As a schoolgirl, Bára was more interested in playing football than playing her instrument, the violin. She grew up in Norway with her Icelandic parents from the age of five and until 13 when they moved back to Iceland. He mother is…