LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023 Louise McClelland Jacobsen was born in 1997 in Copenhagen and has a Danish/New Zealand background. After MGK, she was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, the Opera Academy in Copenhagen, and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. In addition, Louise has been a soloist with the Danish National…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2022 Johana Maria Nylund is born in 1992 in Lappeerante in Finland and is now living in Copenhagen. Johanna has a bachelor’s degree in music pedagogy from Savonia University of Applied Sciences in Finland and a master’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Today, she is part of the…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2022 Martin Møller Vilbrand was born in 1989 and grew up on Amager. His musical background started at Sankt Annæ Gymnasium, where he spent both his primary school and high school time. Martin then took MGK in Frederiksberg and has since been trained as an opera singer at the Royal Danish…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2021 When Sophie debuted as a mezzo-soprano on the opera scene at the Royal Danish Theatre on Holmen, it was not as part of a classic by Mozart or Puccini. It was, in fact, a recent operatic interpretation of Janne Teller’s youth novel Intet, where Sophie sang one of the leading…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2021 Katinka does not come from a home filled with classical music. She does, however, come from a home full of sing-song. Her parents taught music and also started a private independent school at home in Himmerland where Katinka and her three siblings made up about 10% of the pupils. Here…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 An unusual journey When Nicolai Elsberg later this year becomes part of the Royal Danish Theatre’s soloist ensemble and sings his first great role as Sarastro in The Magic Flute, it would be easy to think that it was the initial culmination of a strictly planned, dead straight career plan….
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 Lifted by the wind Air has been playing a role in Lil Lacy’s professional life for a long time. Both the air that surrounds us and that we breathe, and the air at higher altitudes. Her latest work for accordion, Løftet af vinden (Lifted by the wind), came into being…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 She who laughs last sings best! As a child Helle Gössler both played the accordion, the clarinet and the saxophone in music school. She also sang in a children’s choir despite her two older sisters saying she didn’t sing very well. According to them her singing was both too powerful,…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 An entire school life of singing – now on her own two feet Ever since Clara Cecilie Thomsen started third grade at Sankt Annæ Gymnasium’s primary school, her days have been filled with organised singing. At the singing school in Valby, the pupils have many singing and choir lessons each…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2017 Microphones are my instruments It is not technique but a desire to achieve the best musical productions that draw Daniel Davidsen into the field of audio engineering. I’m on the right track These prizes confirm that what I am doing is okay. It has convinced me that I just need to…
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