LÉONIE SONNING TALENT PRIZE 2023
Kasper Grøn was born in Aalborg in 1991. At the age of nine, he started playing drums at Aalborg Garden, and in 2016 he received a bachelor’s degree in percussion from the Conservatory of Music of Southern Denmark. He has also studied at Johan Bridger at Sundsgården’s music line in Helsingborg, Sweden. Kasper has also written an opera together with soprano Anne-Sofie Møller Olesen. The opera was based on the first corona lockdown and premiered at the Funen Opera in 2023 after several cancellations due to the pandemic. Kasper will use the money that comes with the Léonie Sonning Talent Award to acquire a glockenspiel, a drum kit, and new cymb
