Born: 1968

Educated:
After smashing the lids on all the jam jars, my parents signed me up for drums in Hørsholm music school with Ole Pedersen. Ended up a few years later at Det Kgl. Danish Music Conservatory at, among others solo opukist Søren Monrad and jazz vibraphonist Max Leth.

Why did you choose to become a musician?
Try to imagine 65 people getting something meaningful out of talking into each other's mouths….No, right? But on a daily basis, we have 65 musicians playing "in each other's mouths", and it doesn't just make sense: Once in a while, the little hairs on the back of your neck stand up. That's why I became a musician.

What is your greatest experience as a musician?
It is impossible for me to point to a single experience as being the greatest. But I am grateful to have experienced Iona Brown's total devotion to classical music, and her inexhaustible energy. I have also had the pleasure of playing Richard Strauss's "Rosenkavaleren" at Det Kgl. Theatre, and I can't quite put my finger on what it is, but it's good, really good! As an audience member, I particularly remember a concert with Oscar Petersen in Tivoli's concert hall: SO virtuosic and SO moving at the same time.

..I had almost forgotten the school concerts: Now I hope no adult audience will be offended, meeen... Children are the world's best audience!

A little about yourself outside the concert hall:
The music also occupies a lot of space outside the orchestra. In the ensembles Duo CorTo, EventyrOrkestret, Slagkraft and Plankeværksequilibristerne, I play chamber music from modern composition music to pure banter and ballads with bath jumps over the marimba. I get my desire for film music under control in Hollywood Brass, where I also get to air my hobby as an amateur DTPer, with the design of posters and logos, which of course takes place on Macintosh.