Troels Roland

Troels Roland

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 Troels Roland Completed his MA (with top marks) at The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus,. At present he is studying in the soloist class at RDAM under Anne Øland, Søren Rastogi and Friedrich Gürtler. Troels is active as an accompanist and chamber musican, and in August 2014 he performed Schubert’s…

Theodor Lyngstad

Theodor Lyngstad

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 Theodor Lyngstad was born in 1993 in Trondheim, Norway. He is in his 3rd year at RDAM, studying under Morten Zeuthen. He is an active chamber musician and is a member of the Alba String Quartet. As a member of the string trio Trio Patetico, he was named musician of…

Morten Grove Frandsen

Morten Grove Frandsen

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 Morten Grove Frandsen (b. 1987) began his studies in 2007 under Hanna Hjort at MGK Frederiksberg. In 2010, he was accepted as a student at RDAM, where he first studied under Jens Krogsgaard and completed his BA under Kirsten Buhl Møller. In 2012, he decided to change from baritone to…

Mads Emil Nielsen

Mads Emil Nielsen

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 (b. 1989) works as an electronic musician/composer and percussionist, with his base in Copenhagen. In recent years, he has focused on solo projects, gaining considerable inspiration from both earlier and contemporary experimental electronic/electro-acoustic music. In 2014, he started his own label and his own artistic platform, arbitrary. This has resulted…

Henrik Budde

Henrik Budde

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2014 (b. 1982) studied composition at The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg under Karl Aage Rasmussen, Hans Abrahamsen, Simon Steen-Andersen (2007-12) and in the soloist class at Norges Musikkhøgskole under Lasse Thoresen and Simon Steen-Andersen (2012-14). He also has a qualification in musicology and has taken private teaching in orchestral conducting….

Elias Holm

Elias Holm

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 Elias Holm (b. 1996) started to play the piano under Mark Schneider and Tove Lønskov. At present, he is studying under Amalie Malling at RDAM. He won a gold medal in the Berlingske Classical Music Competition and also won the Danish Steinway Festival. In 2013, he gained the Grand Prix…

August Finkas

August Finkas

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…

Anna Maria Wierød

Anna Maria Wierød

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2015 Anna Maria Wierød has completed the soloist class and holds an MA in classical singing and Renaissance vocal ensemble from The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Hochschule für Künste Bremen and Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. She has studied under Anthony Rooley, Evelyn Tubb, Bodil Øland, Harry van der Kamp and Lars…

Anja Nedremo

Anja Nedremo

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…

Eva Steinaa

Eva Steinaa

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…