Victor Koch Jensen

Victor Koch Jensen

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 Santa Claus started the trumpeter’s career Victor Koch Jensen does not just come from a home with music, but from a home filled with woodwind instruments. Both parents are clarinettists, and Victor’s brother is a bassoonist with the Royal Danish Orchestra. He could therefore appear somewhat like the family’s black…

Ventus

Ventus

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 Play music, have fun and enjoy! Clarinettist Louise Anine Kempf Mogensen is from Hedehusene. Flutist Michaela Hansen is from Malmö. They met at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, and, one day in 2017, Michaela called Louise and suggested that they formed a duo and entered a competition in Japan….

Ramez Mhaanna

Ramez Mhaanna

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 From Nørrebro ghetto to piano talent in Moscow Growing up in a Nørrebro ghetto area as an immigrant child of a Russian mother and a Lebanese father while also playing classical piano was never easy for Ramez. His friends did not understand why he always had to play that instrument….

Nikolaj Henriques

Nikolaj Henriques

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 The bassoonist who lives in the moment Nikolaj Henriques actually started playing the clarinet. When he saw the Tivoli Youth Guard marching in their handsome uniforms, he badgered his parents to let him register for the admission test. He got in and, at the age of 6, he started his…

Clara Cecilie Thomsen

Clara Cecilie Thomsen

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…

Christine Bernsted

Christine Bernsted

Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2019 Art and culture help Christine find the passion of music When Christine Bernsted starts rehearsing a composition, she often dives into the period when the composition was made. She visits museums and looks at art or reads literature from the same place and period as the composition. When visiting Vienna…

Hans Abrahamsen
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Hans Abrahamsen

Hans Abrahamsen received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2019 Composer Hans Abrahamsen received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2019 of EUR 100,000 at a concert held on 26 April 2019 at the Concert House, DR Byen. Programme Hans Abrahamsen let me tell you for soprano and orchestra. Lyrics by Paul Griffiths (2013) Debussy Children’s Corner orchestrated by Hans Abrahamsen…