46 Notable alumni of
Royal Danish Academy of Music
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The Royal Danish Academy of Music is 1204th in the world, 432nd in Europe, and 6th in Denmark by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 46 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
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- conductorpianiststand-up comediancomposeractor
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Børge Rosenbaum, known professionally as Victor Borge, was a Danish-American actor, 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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- autobiographerchoreographercomposerpianistconductor
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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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- composersinger-songwritersingerlyricist
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Czesław Stefan Mozil, also 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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- singermusic professorvoice actorrecording artistmusic educator
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Hanne Boel is a Danish singer.
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Poul Ruders
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- composer
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Poul Ruders is a Danish composer.
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Arve Tellefsen
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- classical violinistrecording artist
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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
- composerchapelmastertelevision celebrity chefrestaurateur
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James Price is a Danish composer and conductor, as well as a celebrity TV chef, known especially for appearing along with his brother Adam Price on the Danish cooking show Spise med Price (Eating with the Prices). In terms of musical work, he is best known for having served as the conductor on the Danish revue, Cirkusrevyen from 1984 to 2021.
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Nikolaj Koppel
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- conductorpianistjournalistmusicianradio personality
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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 educatormusic 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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- composerpercussionistjazz musiciansinger
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Marilyn Mazur was an American-born Danish percussionist. From 1975, she worked as a percussionist with various groups, among them Six Winds with Alex Riel. Mazur was primarily an autodidact, but she had a degree in percussion from the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
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Göran Söllscher
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- university teacherclassical guitaristmusician
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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 composercomposer
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Vagn Gylding Holmboe was a Danish composer and teacher.
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Bo Skovhus
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- opera singer
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Bo Skovhus is a Danish opera singer (baritone).
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Thomas Søndergård
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- music educatorconductor
- Biography
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Thomas Søndergård is a Danish conductor and percussionist.
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Niels Viggo Bentzon
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- screenwriterfilm directorpianistcomposerchoreographer
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Niels Viggo Bentzon was a Danish composer and pianist.
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Frans Bak
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- film score composersaxophonistcomposerjazz musicianpianist
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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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Bent Sørensen
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- music educatorcomposer
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Bent Sørensen is a Danish composer. He won the 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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- composerpianistphilosopherwriter
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Jurij Moskvitin was a Danish classical pianist, composer, philosopher, mathematician and boheme.
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Katrine Gislinge
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- 1969-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- pianist
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Katrine Gislinge is a Danish pianist.
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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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Victor Bendix
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- pianistconductorcomposer
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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
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- 1976-.. (age 50)
- 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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Ludolf Nielsen
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- composerconductor
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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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Andrea Pellegrini
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- opera singer
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Andrea Pellegrini is a Danish mezzo-soprano. She is the daughter of jazz musician Rolando Pellegrini (Rolly) and lab technician Annelise Pellegrini (née Dahlgaard).
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Sunleif Rasmussen
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- 1961-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- composer
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Sunleif Rasmussen is one of the foremost Faroese composers of classical music.
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Michael Bojesen
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- docentcomposercultural agenttheatre managerconductor
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Michael Bojesen is a Danish conductor, composer, choirmaster and arranger. He is former director of Malmö Opera where he served from 2017 to 2022. He won the Danish annual prize for choral composition in 1998.
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Katrine Madsen
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- composerjazz musicianteachersinger
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Katrine Madsen is a Danish jazz singer.
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Axel Gade
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Music
- Studied in 1879-1881
- Occupations
- violinistcomposer
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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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- composerprofessor
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Wayne Siegel is an American composer living in Malling, Denmark.
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Agnes Adler
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- pianistmusic educatormusician
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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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- composerconductor
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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 teacherflautistcomposer
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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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- music educatorbotanistcomposeruniversity teachermusicologist
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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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Tekla Griebel-Wandall
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- music educatorcomposer
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Tekla Griebel-Wandall was a Danish composer and music educator.
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Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach
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- pianistwritercomposer
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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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- 1964-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- composerclassical guitarist
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Ólavur Jakobsen, is a classical guitarist. He was born in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with Ingolf Olsen, where he received his masters diploma 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
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- 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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Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod
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- composer
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Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod was a Danish composer and organist.
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Knud Arne Jürgensen
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- historianmusicologistmusic historiandramaturge
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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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Thomas Jensen
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- conductorcellist
- Biography
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Thomas Jensen was a Danish orchestra conductor.
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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
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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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Kasper Bai
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- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- composer
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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
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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.
