Elisabeth Holmegaard Nielsen, piano
Elisabeth Holmegaard Nielsen is one of the most promising young Danish pianists of her generation.
Her performances are characterized by musical intelligence and virtuoso technique.
She has been named “The Young Artistic Elite 2020” by the Danish National Art Foundation and has received Sonning Talent Prize and Queen Ingrid’s Roman Foundation.
Elisabeth is an award winner at many international piano competitions. She has performed as a soloist with orchestras in Denmark, Poland, Ukraine and Holland; and has toured with solo concerts in most of Europe and China.
Elisabeth has released two critically acclaimed CDs with works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Carl Nielsen and Prokofiev.
AND a great amateur operachoir performing chorus-highlights with professional soloists and pianist, directed by Torben H.S. Svendsen, on wednesday august 11, 2021, as a pre-concert for the festival.