Thomas Storm

Thomas Storm

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Thomas Storm has performed with Odense Symphony on several occasions, both as a soloist and compère at a number of schools and family concerts. Most recently as a soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana. In 2009 he made his debut at The Royal Danish Theatre in the role of Moralès in…

Sofie Elkjær Jensen

Sofie Elkjær Jensen

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Sofie Elkjær Jensen started as a 17-year-old on Slagelse Basic Music Course – while also completely her upper secondary education. She completed both in 2005, and was accepted that same year at The Royal Danish Academy of Music. In 2009 she won 1st prize in the “Friends of Opera” competition…

Philip Schmidt-Madsen

Philip Schmidt-Madsen

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…

Magnus Koch Jensen

Magnus Koch Jensen

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…

Lars Greve

Lars Greve

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Since gaining his BA at the Danish Academy of Rhythmic Music Lars Greve has put on a number of spectacular cultural projects at home and abroad. These include improvisation concerts with Kresten Osgood at atypical venues in Holstebro Municipality, a tour in China with the band Girls in Airports and,…

Julia Dahlkvist

Julia Dahlkvist

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Julia Dahlkvist started playing the piano at the age of three, with her mother, Midia Mustonen, as her teacher. After the family moved to Finland – when she was 16 – she studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. She took her diploma…

Eskild Skovbakke Winding

Eskild Skovbakke Winding

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Eskild Skovbakke Winding made his debut as a soloist with an orchestra in 2005 – Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto, together with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra. On several occasions, Eskild Skovbakke Winding has been a soloist with the University of Southern Denmark’s Chamber Orchestra, here in Denmark, at Teatro Colon in…

Dénise Beck

Dénise Beck

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 In 2008, Dénise Beck made her debut at Volksoper Wien in the role of Countess Anastasia in Kalman’s ‘Die Csardasfürstin’. In 2010, she was awarded 2nd prize in the Richard Tauber Competition in London, and the following year she won both the Ina Nielsen Prize and the Danish Radio P2’s…

Alexander McKenzie

Alexander McKenzie

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2012 Alexander McKenzie made his debut in 2005 at the age of 16 with an orchestra in Sydney as the soloist in Grieg’s piano concerto. Since then he has appeared as soloist with the Southern Jutland Symphony Orchestra, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and has done many concerts in Copenhagen, New York…