45 Notable alumni of
Royal Danish Academy of Music
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The Royal Danish Academy of Music is 1216th in the world, 425th in Europe, and 6th in Denmark by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 45 notable alumni from the Royal Danish Academy of Music sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Victor Borge
- Occupations
- stand-up comedianpianistconductoractorcomposer
- Biography
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Børge Rosenbaum, known professionally as Victor Borge, was a Danish-American comedian and pianist who achieved great popularity in radio and television in both North America and Europe. His blend of music and comedy earned him the nicknames "The Clown Prince of Denmark", "The Unmelancholy Dane", and "The Great Dane".
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Carl Nielsen
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- classical composerconductorchoreographermusic teacherautobiographer
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Carl August Nielsen was a Danish composer, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.
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Czesław Śpiewa
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- singer-songwritercomposerlyricistsinger
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Czesław Stefan Mozil, known under the alias Czesław Śpiewa (lit. 'Czesław Sings'), is a Polish-Danish singer and musician (mostly using the accordion), and graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
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Hanne Boel
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- music professorsingermusic teacherrecording artistvoice actor
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Hanne Boel is a Danish singer.
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Arve Tellefsen
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- recording artistclassical violinist
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Arve Tellefsen is a Norwegian violinist who has worked with conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Arvid Jansons, Herbert Blomstedt, Gary Bertini, Evgeny Svetlanov, Bryden Thomson, Neeme Järvi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Paavo Berglund, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Walter Weller and Zubin Mehta. In the UK, he has appeared with the Royal Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, The Hallé, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Welsh Orchestra, the Liverpool Philharmonic and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
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James Price
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Music
- Studied in 1984
- Occupations
- restaurateurtelevision celebrity chefchapelmastercomposer
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James Price is a Danish composer and conductor, as well as a celebrity chef.
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Per Nørgård
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- musicologistcomposerfilm score composer
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Per Nørgård is a Danish composer and music theorist. Though his style has varied considerably throughout his career, his music has often included repeatedly evolving melodies—such as the infinity series—in the vein of Jean Sibelius, and a perspicuous focus on lyricism. Reflecting on this, the composer Julian Anderson described his style as "one of the most personal in contemporary music". Nørgård has received several awards, including the 2016 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.
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Nikolaj Koppel
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- pianistconductorradio personalitymusicianjournalist
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Nikolaj Koppel is a Danish musician, journalist and radio presenter.
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Hans Abrahamsen
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- music teachercomposer
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Hans Abrahamsen is a Danish composer born in Kongens Lyngby near Copenhagen. His Let me tell you (2013), a song cycle for soprano and orchestra, was ranked by music critics at The Guardian as the finest work of the 21st-century. His opera The Snow Queen was commissioned and premiered by the Royal Danish Theatre in 2019.
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Marilyn Mazur
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- percussionistcomposersingerjazz musician
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Marilyn Mazur is an American-born Danish percussionist. Since 1975, she has worked as a percussionist with various groups, among them Six Winds with Alex Riel. Mazur is primarily an autodidact, but she has a degree in percussion from the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
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Göran Söllscher
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- classical guitaristuniversity teachermusician
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Göran Söllscher is a Swedish award-winning virtuoso classical guitarist known for his broad range of musical interpretations, ranging from Bach to the Beatles. Söllscher's international career began during his years of education at the Royal Conservatory of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark when at the age of 23, he won the Concours International de Guitare in Paris, 1978. He was signed by German record label Deutsche Grammophon, the largest label featuring classical guitarists. As of 2005, Söllscher had released 19 records, which altogether have sold over a million copies.
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Vagn Holmboe
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- classical composer
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Vagn Gylding Holmboe was a Danish composer and teacher.
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Bo Skovhus
- Occupations
- opera singer
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Bo Skovhus is a Danish opera singer (baritone).
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Frans Bak
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- jazz musiciancomposersaxophonistfilm score composermusician
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Frans Bak is a Danish composer, choral conductor, saxophonist, and pianist. He is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music and has worked as a jazz performer and composer of film music. In 1994, he founded the composer's association Den 3. Vej. He plays saxophone, keyboards, and piano.
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Niels Viggo Bentzon
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- pianistfilm directorscreenwriterchoreographercomposer
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Niels Viggo Bentzon was a Danish composer and pianist.
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Thomas Søndergård
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- conductormusic teacher
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Thomas Søndergård is a Danish conductor and percussionist.
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Bent Sørensen
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- composermusic teacher
- Biography
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Bent Sørensen is a Danish composer. He won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 2018 for L'isola della Città (2016).
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Jurij Moskvitin
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- 1938-2005 (aged 67)
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- pianistcomposerwriterphilosopher
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Jurij Moskvitin was a classical pianist, composer, philosopher, mathematician and boheme.
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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
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- composer
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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen was a Danish composer.
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Katrine Gislinge
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- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- pianist
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Katrine Gislinge is a Danish pianist.
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Ludolf Nielsen
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- conductorcomposer
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Karl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen was a Danish composer, violinist, conductor, and pianist. Today he is considered one of the most important Danish composers of the early 1900s (together with the more famous Carl Nielsen).
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Victor Bendix
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- pianistcomposerconductor
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Victor Emanuel Bendix was a Danish composer, conductor and pianist, who came from a Jewish family. His teachers included Niels Gade.
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Tróndur Bogason
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- composer
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Tróndur Bogason is a Faroese composer and musician. He composes classical works, but he also arranges music for pop, rock and folk artists. He is married to the Faroese singer Eivør Pálsdóttir with whom he also works; they arranged her album Room together. Bogason was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. He has been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Music Prize and is one of the few who have received a three-year grant from Mentanargrunnur Landsins.
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Sunleif Rasmussen
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- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- composer
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Sunleif Rasmussen is the foremost Faroese composer of classical music.
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Katrine Madsen
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- singerjazz musiciancomposer
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Katrine Madsen is a Danish jazz singer.
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Axel Gade
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- composer
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Axel Gade was a Danish violinist, composer, and conductor. He was the son of Niels Wilhelm Gade.
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Michaela Fukačová
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- musician
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Michaela Fukačová is a Czech cellist. She took up the cello aged 14, and won the Beethoven Cello Competition two years later. She is a past winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. She studied at the Brno Conservatory, the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU) under Saša Večtomov, the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and with André Navarra, Paul Tortelier and Mstislav Rostropovich.
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Wayne Siegel
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- professorcomposer
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Wayne Siegel is an American composer living in Malling, Denmark.
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Thomas Jensen
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- cellistconductor
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Thomas Jensen was a Danish orchestra conductor.
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Agnes Adler
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- music teacherpianistmusician
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Agnes Charlotte Dagmar Adler, born Hansen (19 February 1865 in Copenhagen – 11 October 1935 at the same place was a Danish pianist. She is buried at Gentofte Kirkegård.
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Carl Busch
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- conductorcomposer
- Biography
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Carl Busch was a Danish-born American composer and music teacher sometimes associated with the Indianist movement. He was an important figure in the musical life of Kansas City, Missouri, for many years.
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Bjarke Mogensen
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- musician
- Biography
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Bjarke Pauli Mogensen is a Danish accordionist. He began learning the accordion at age 7.
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Lars Graugaard
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- university teachercomposerflautist
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Lars Graugaard is a Danish composer of contemporary classical music and a laptop performer of improvised music and experimental techno music.
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Rudolph Sophus Bergh
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- botanistmusic teachercomposermusicologistzoologist
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Rudolph Sophus Bergh was a Danish composer and zoologist. He was the son of physician and zoologist Rudolph Bergh. He received his general education at the Metropolitanskolen and then studied music at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and zoology at the University of Copenhagen. He later taught histology and embryology at the university and published two books in his field: Forelæsninger over den almindelige Udviklingshistorie (1887) and Forelæsninger over den dyriske Celle (1892). In 1898 he was appointed a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. In 1903 he abandoned his science career and moved to Germany to focus solely on his work as a composer. After World War I he returned to his native country to teach at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
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Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach
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- pianistcomposerwriter
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Countess Stephanie von Wurmbrand-Stuppach was a Hungarian pianist and composer. She was also known as Stephanie Brand-Vrabely.
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Ólavur Jakobsen
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- classical guitaristcomposer
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Ólavur Jakobsen, classical guitarist. Studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with Ingolf Olsen and received his masters diploma exam in 1995. Further studies in Paris with French guitarist Roland Dyens. Has participated in masterclasses with e.g. Sir Julian Bream and David Russell.
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Elisabeth Westenholz
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Elisabeth Westenholz is a Danish pianist and organist. She has been called one of Denmark’s premier performers by the Kristeligt Dagblad.
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Tekla Griebel-Wandall
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- composermusic teacher
- Biography
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Tekla Griebel-Wandall was a Danish composer and music educator.
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Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod
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- composer
- Biography
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Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod was a Danish composer and organist.
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Knud Arne Jürgensen
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- music historianmusicologisthistoriandramaturge
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Knud Arne Jürgensen is a Danish music-, opera-, ballet- and theater historian, dramaturg, curator of exhibitions, senior researcher, critic, dr. phil.
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Carl Faia
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- composer
- Biography
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Carl Faia is an American composer and live electronics designer and performer.
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Axel Liebmann
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- composer
- Biography
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Axel Liebmann was a Danish composer. With Victor Bendix, he founded the choral group Korforeningen in 1872 and conducted it from its founding to his death 1876.
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Jesper Nordin
- Occupations
- composerconductorhorn player
- Biography
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Jesper Nordin is a Danish conductor and composer.
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Kasper Bai
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Kasper Bai is a Danish songwriter, composer, arranger and guitarist. He was born in Hjørring, studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, and now lives and works in Copenhagen. He is known for his Jazz/Classical crossover orchestral pieces and his modern use of the Danish "Vise" form. His ensembles include the Kasper Bai Orchestet, the Kasper Bai Kvartet and Cordelia.
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Asunción Claro
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Sofia Asunción Claro is a Chilean-born classical harpist with a special interest in contemporary music. Since 1974, she has divided her time between Copenhagen, Denmark and Santiago, Chile.
