Léonie Sonning Talent Prizes 2020

Meet this year's Talent Prize Winners - 10 students from The Royal Danish Academy of Music

In addition to the prestigious Léonie Sonning Music Prize, the Music Foundation awards talent prizes to young Scandinavian music talents. The prizes cannot be applied for, but are awarded by the board of the Music Foundation.

This year eleven young musicians were awarded, and ten of these are students at The Royal Danish Academy of Music:

Adam Koch Christensen, violin (RDAM)
Alva Holm, violin (RDAM)
Helle Gössler, soprano (RDAM)
Jonas Egholm, guitar (RDAM)
Kaya Kato Møller, violin (RDAM)
Lea Han, piano (RDAM)
Lil Lacy, composer (RAM, Aarhus)
Matias Vestergård, composer (RDAM)
Nicholas Algot Swensen, viola (RDAM)
Nicolai Elsberg, bass (RDAM)
Nils Erik Måseidvåg, conductor (RDAM)

See the interviews on www.sonningmusik.dk

Meet this year’s Sonning Music Prize Winner Barbara Hannigan at RDAM (postponed due to the corona crisis):

Recital with Barbara Hannigan and Equilibrium Young Artists on 16 May 2021, RDAM Concert Hall

Masterclass and Q&A with Barbara Hannigan on 17 May 2021, RDAM Studio Hall

Read more about the Léonie Sonning Music Prizes

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