Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 Stavanger by night When Nils Erik Måseidvåg was a teenager, the perfect Saturday night for him was when there was absolutely nothing on in his hometown of Stavanger in western Norway. Because that meant he could grab a whole load of scores and immerse himself in e.g. Bruckner’s collected symphonies…
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 Clown, chef or Michael Jackson As a young child, Nicholas Algot Swensen wanted to be a clown. As he never does things by half, he invented different clown characters down to the very last detail and bought costumes and props in specialty stores to be able to live out his…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 Things are better when you make them yourself As the son of a crane driver and a school teacher there was nothing in Matias Vestergaard Hansen’s childhood to suggest that he would become a composer. However, Matias thinks he once heard that his grandfather was quite musical. Matias spent a…
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 A pianist by chance Throughout most of Lea Han’s childhood the idea was that she should study medicine. When she was sent to piano lessons at the age of six it was mainly because she needed to do something else apart from school. Lea’s Chinese parents believed that the piano…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 A broken arm There are in particular two advantages to playing the guitar if you ask Jonas Egholm. First of all a guitar is cheaper than for instance wind instruments and bassoons. And secondly there is often a guitar in the corner that you can play when you visit people….
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 2020 The dilemma faced by a competitive musician With a father who is a classically trained guitarist, a mother who is a radio host on the Danish DR P2 channel and a younger brother who plays the cello, Adam was exposed to a lot of classical music throughout his childhood. It…
Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020 Born to be a classical musician Alva was destined to have a musical career as more or less everyone in the family works with classical music in one way or another. Her mother used to be a professional cellist, and her brother, Elias Holm, is a pianist. He received the…
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