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Which particular works do you think you perform best? Singling out one of them would be unfair to the others! If I had to mention one performance that I remember well, it would be the European premiere of John Williams’ cello concerto with the Tivoli Copenhagen Phil under legendary conductor Lawrence Foster. Many more are on the way, and I really treat them like small infants that I nurture. Personally, I think each of them tells a story about where I was in my development at the time they were done. I have enjoyed the process of all my recordings. Which performances/recordings are you most proud of? At the end of the day, I decided to go with the basic musical instinct that has been with me since childhood. Over the years, these two needs have been at odds many times! But I think I am getting better and better at balancing them, and dreams and ambitions are currently winning! In 2020 I decided to leave my secure job as principal cellist of the Copenhagen Phil to pursue a solo career.įull-time positions are relatively rare for musicians, and if you are lucky enough to be part of a group like the Copenhagen Phil, the decision is almost impossible. On the one hand the art of balancing jobs to earn a living, and on the other to keep living artistic dreams and ambitions. What have been the greatest challenges of your career so far? As John Rutter says in his interview here on Meet the Artist: You don’t choose music as a way of life, it chooses you. I would like to add that the inspiration and drive to play music have been constant forces since a very young age. Through the years, pianist Yaron Kohlberg, together with whom I recently released Beethoven’s works for piano and cello, has become a great friend while showing by example how a world-class musician works and plays.
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I thank him for that on a daily basis! Among the musicians who influenced me directly and indelibly are the members of the Paizo Quartet, in particular Mikkel Futtrup, our incredible first violinist whose constant search for natural and free quartet playing became part of my musical DNA. Late in my studies I encountered the Croatian cellist Valter Dešpalj who showed me the way to a relaxed cello technique and opened my ears to versatile playing styles.
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Jensen convinced me that I could achieve musical excellence through intensive work, and he taught me how to practise with a real focus, something from which I greatly benefitted. One of the most important influences was professor Hans Jensen from Northwestern Bienen School of Music (then Northwestern University School of Music), with whom I studied at Meadowmount School of Music and in Evanston, Illinois. Later influences from teachers and fellow students during my studies, and incredible colleagues during my career as a soloist, teacher and orchestra/chamber musician, have impacted me greatly, and I am profoundly indebted to all of them! At the age of fourteen I began to study music full-time at the local Royal Academy of Music, which seemed like a natural continuation of the wave of creativity and music my childhood was so filled with. He plays the cello with a Scandinavian, yet unmistakably personal sound, a concept that I instinctively set out to imitate. One of the returning guests and a good friend of the house was cellist and professor Morten Zeuthen, who became my cello “father” from the very beginning and later my teacher and today colleague at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen. Spurred by this vibrant atmosphere I did all I could to learn an instrument – piano first, then cello.
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It felt as if our home was always full of Danish and international musicians, composers and artists.
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My father had a substantial concert career and released thirty (!) solo albums, while my mother pursued a career as a landscape painter. Both of my parents where classical guitarists who met at the academy in my hometown Aarhus, Denmark, where my father taught my mother throughout her studies.
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I had a wonderful childhood in a family of professional musicians. Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music and who or what have been the most important influences on your musical life and career?