Instrumentalists

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2017 I love ‘nerding’ with my guitar Sometimes, Mikkel Egelund Nielsen is playing on his guitar so often that his nails are almost worn down. Therefore, he cares meticulously for his nails. As a guitarist, it is important to care for your nails. Some have manicures, but Mikkel Egelund Nielsen does…

Léonie Sonning Talent prize 2017 Life makes music swing It takes equal portions of pleasure, hard work and self-discipline to create a top-level musician, Jonathan Swensen explains. For eight years, a cardboard sign in a plastic cover has been lying in cellist Jonathan Swensen’s drawer. He got it at the Menlo music festival in California…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2017 Played the flute crosswise Since being a little girl, Ingrid Søfteland Neset wanted to play the cross flute, and she didn’t stop until she had her way. Ingrid was born in Norway into a musical family – her parents are music teachers, her sister sings and her brother is a…

Léonie Sonning Talent prize 2017 The violin makes me happy – it’s not just work Anna Egholm is an unusually hard-working and talented young woman. 20 years’ old and she is already well under way with her career as a violinist after a career as a figure skater and actress. Just before Anna Agafia Svideniouk…

Léonie Sonning Talent prize 2017 As a composer, you have to be a plate spinner It is important to get out and meet people if you wish to be hired as a composer. Luckily, Allan Gravgaard Madsen is very good at that and at keeping the plates spinning. Allan Gravgaard Madsen is not from Viborg,…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2016 It has been wonderful to have a voice in the violin during the confused teenage years Kirstine has never missed anything when the violin has been by her side. Kirstine Schneider (b. 1993) has studied under Tove Detreköy and Gunnar Tagmose. In 2013, she studied in New York under Sylvia…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2016 Joachim Becerra Thomsen (b. 1995) was admitted at the age of 12 to the Junior Academy of the Royal Danish Academy of Music. In 2012, he started his flute studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music under Ulla Miilmann. Concurrently with this, Joachim Becerra Thomsen has assisted the Danish…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2016 Jonas Lyskjær Frølund started playing the clarinet at the age of 10. He was later admitted to the 4-year talent course, MGK, at Sankt Annæ Gymnasium under John Kruse. He studies under Lee Morgan at the Royal Danish Academy of Music while finishing his MGK studies at the same time….

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2016 Jákup Lützen (b. 1988) was born and raised in the Faeroe Islands. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2013 and was subsequently admitted to the soloist class under Lars Anders Tomter. In 2013, Jákup Lützen was admitted to Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester with which he has been…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2016 Jacob la Cour (b. 1988) was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, RAMA, under Henrik Brendstrup. Three years later, he continued his studies at Claudio Bohórquez in Berlin and was thereafter admitted to Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover under Tilmann Wick. Here, he finished his studies…