Instrumentalists

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2013 In 2006, Magnus Fryklund began to study piano under Bengt Anderson, cello under Per Helders and composition under Sven David Sandström at the Academy of Music in Falun, Sweden. In 2010, he gained entry to The Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he studied under Amalie Malling, and the following…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2013 Mads Forsby (b. 1985) can already boast a wide-ranging career as a musician and composer. He is interested in sound installations and film music and plays drums in numerous different contexts. His activities derive from an unorthodox approach to improvisation, exploration of sound and noise and diverse manipulations of the…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2013 Copenhagen Piano Quartet is a young piano quartet with roots in Denmark, the Czech Republic and Poland. The quartet was formed in 2010 and studies as an ensemble in the soloist class with Tim Frederiksen and Jens Elvekjær at The Royal Danish Academy of Music. In 2011, Copenhagen Piano Quartet…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 As a soloist and chamber player, Louise Hjorth Hansen has played concerts at home and abroad. Her focus on playing concerts of an experimental nature has led to a collaboration with composers, jazz and electronic musicians where a sound world is created of floating, hypnotic and improvising sound collages. She…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2013 In 2002-2007 Karen Bach studied at the Danish Academy of Rhythmic Music in Copenhagen. Since then she has worked as a pianist, composer and arranger of her own and other people’s projects, including Three Trios, the electropop quartet Next to Beluga and the New York trio Bach/Froman/Gregor as well as…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2013 Ingrid Meidell Noodt has assisted in The Royal Danish Orchestra, The Copenhagen Philharmonic, DR UnderholdningsOrkestret, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and Västerås Sinfonietta. In 2011 she won 2nd prize as well as the jury’s special prize in the Danish Radio P2 Chamber Music Competition together with the wind quintet Mazvila Winds. In…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Anne Holm-Nielsen gained her BA from The Royal Danish Academy of Music, where she studied under Tove Lønskov, Anne Øland and Tim Frederiksen. In 2012 she made her debut with chamber music and accompaniment as her special subjects from The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Aarhus, where she was…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Rasmus Schjærff gained a summa cum laude in his final examination at The Royal Danish Academy of Music and now studies in the soloist class there. He has won prizes at international competitions in Italy (Val Tidone) and German (Bensheim), has played solo and chamber music at international and Danish…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 In June 2011 Philip Schmidt-Madsen, as the first Dane for 19 years, won 1st prize at The International Carl Nielsen Organ Competition, and was also awarded the “Commotio Prize” for the best interpretation of Carl Nielsen’s organ work Commotio. He regularly cooperates with a large number of choirs and orchestras…

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 In 2006, Magnus Koch Jensen won the gold medal in the Berlingske Tidende Music Competition. That same year, he was awarded the Hans Peter Nielsen grant and the Jacob Gade Talent Prize. The following year, he was awarded the Rødovre Music Prize of DKK 30,000. On four occasions he has…