Léonie Sonning Talent Prizes 2022

7 out of 10 Prize winners are 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 ten young musicians were awarded, and seven of these are students from The Royal Danish Academy of Music:

Emilie Ravn Jensen, french horn (RDAM)
Isabelle Bania, violin (RDAM)
Johanna Nylund, soprano (RDAM)
Katrin Raasthøj Mathiesen, clarinet (RDAM)
Lorenzo Colombo, percussion (RDAM)
Magnus Plejdrup, composer and conductor (Aarhus Academy of Music)
Frederik Zeuthen, komponist (Aarhus Academy of Music)
Martin Møller Vilbrand, basbaryton (RDAM)
Mathias Skaarup Sørensen, dirigent (Aarhus Academy of Music)
Tony Nguyen, pianist (RDAM and Aarhus)

Meet Sonning Prize Winner Pierre-Laurent Aimard at RDAM:

Ream more on www.sonningmusik.dk