Instrumentalists

éonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 August Finkas (b. 1993) started to play the clarinet at the age of 11 in the Tivoli Boys’ Guard, continuing his clarinet studies under Klaus Tönshoff at Sankt Annæ MGK. Since 2013, he has studied under John Kruse at The Roal Danish Academy of Music (RDAM). He has also taken…

éonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 was born and grew up in Drammen, Norway. She started her musical studies under Claus Olesen at The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg and holds a BA and MA in classical saxophone. She is now in the soloist class at the same academy. She has also studied under Lars Mlekusch…

éonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Maria Steinaa was born in 1993. She started playing the flute at the age of nine at Sankt Annæ Gymnasium, continuing at MGK (musical basic programme). At the age of 17, she was accepted as a student at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, with Toke Lund Christiansen as her…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Oscar Micaelsson was born in 1990 in Göteborg, Sweden. He studies at The Royal Danish Academy of Music and will complete his master’s degree (piano) in 2014. He is active within jazz and improvisation, and in 2012 he performed John Cage’s piano concerto for prepared piano and sinfonietta. He has…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Jeppe Zeeberg was born in 1988. He has a master’s degree from Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium (2013) and is an active member of the groups Dødens Garderobe, Horse Orchestra, The Roll-Ons and Bird Alert. He has collaborated with John Tchicai, Andrew D’Angelo, Kresten Osgood among others, and has organised events for avant-garde…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Erik Kolind was born in 1985 and started his musical career in the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir. In 2009 he completed the master’s programme in improvisation and organ at The Royal Danish Academy of Music. And in 2012 he completed the diploma programme in organ improvisation and music theory at…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Berit Sørensen was born in 1980. She has studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, The Norwegian Academy of Music and The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, where she made her debut from the soloist class in 2013. She has also studied under Marie Luise Neunecker in Berlin and…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Benedikte Damgaard was born in 1986. She made her debut in January 2014 from the soloist class at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, having studied the violin under Serguei Azizian, and chamber music with the Copenhagen Piano Quartet under Jens Elvekjær and Tim Frederiksen. She made her debut as…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 Antina Hugosson started to play the violin at the age of four in Kristianstad, Sweden. During her violin studies at Malmö Academy of Music she played the baroque violin under Peter Spissky, later specialising in early music under Enrico Gatti and Ryo Terakado at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague,…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2013 Niklas Walentin Jensen gained 2nd prize in The International Carl Nielsen Violin Competition in 2012, where he also received the prize for the best interpretation of Carl Nielsen’s works and for the best interpretation of Ib Nørholm’s “Ménage à trois”. At the finale concerts he was the soloist with the…