Bent Lorentzen was a Danish composer. He was one of the outstanding figures in contemporary Danish music. His works are frequently performed at festivals at home and abroad, and he had established particularly close links with musical life in Poland and Germany. He was honoured with several international prizes and was named Choral Composer of the Year in Denmark in 1989.
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.
Bent Sørensen is a Danish composer. He won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 2018 for L'isola della Città (2016).
Michala Petri is a Danish recorder player. Her debut as a soloist was in 1969. She is the step-granddaughter of Danish actress Ingeborg Brams.
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider is a Danish violinist and conductor.
Søren Nils Eichberg is a German/Danish classical composer and conductor.
Thomas Koppel was a Danish classical music and avant-garde popular composer and musician.
Anders Koppel is a co-founder in 1967 of the rock group Savage Rose. From 1976 to 2012 he was a member of the trio Bazaar. He plays in the trio Koppel-Andersen-Koppel which includes his son, saxophone player Benjamin Koppel, founder of the record label Cowbell and former music director of Jazzhus Montmartre. Anders Koppel has twice received the Danish film award Robert for best film score. His first daughter Sara Koppel is an animator and artist, and the second daughter Marie Carmen Koppel is a gospel, soul, and jazz singer.
Herman David Koppel, known in Denmark as Herman D. Koppel, was a composer and pianist of Jewish origin. Born in Copenhagen, he fled the Nazis with his family to Sweden in 1943. He wrote 7 symphonies, numerous concertos, 6 string quartets and other chamber music, piano works, operas and film music.
Lars Ulrik Mortensen is a Danish harpsichordist and conductor, mainly of Baroque solo music, chamber music and early music repertory. He was a professor in Munich in 1996–99 and has since then been artistic director of Concerto Copenhagen. He received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize in 2007.
Martin Lohse is a Danish classical composer and visual artist.
Amalie Malling is a Danish classical pianist.
Simon Steen-Andersen is a Danish composer, performer, director and media artist.
Peder Severin was a Danish operatic tenor. He made his debuts with Danish National Opera in 1971 and Royal Opera Copenhagen in 1972. In addition to Schubert's song-cycles, Severin has made several premiere recordings of little-known Danish songs with pianist Dorte Kirkeskov.
Mateusz Krzysztof Maksymilian Molęda is a German-Polish conductor.
Rolf Hind is a British pianist and composer. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and at the University of California, Los Angeles.
ULLA MIILMANN PRINCIPAL FLUTIST OF THE NATIONAL DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Kristina Fialová is a Czech classical violist. She is a graduate of the Brno Conservatory, the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden.
Bolette Roed is a Danish-born recorder player based in Copenhagen.
The Danish String Quartet made its debut at the Copenhagen Summer Festival in 2002. The group is known for its performances of classical music as well as its own renditions of traditional Nordic folk music. The quartet has also worked with an extensive range of contemporary Scandinavian composers.
