My name is Katrine Reinhold Bundgaard
Born in 1974
I studied at the music conservatory in Copenhagen and since the third year in a soloist class with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
I won my position as a viola player in DRSO in 2000.
Over the years, I have been a member of the Zapolski Quartet, the Diamond Ensemble and worked as a solo violist in Collegium Musicum.
I am a member of the string sextet Copenhagen Classic and the string quartet 4Corners.
In 1999 I was the only string player to receive the prestigious Concert Recital Diploma for my debut recital in London. The same year I was selected for the BBC Young Artist Forum.
When I'm not at work, I like to listen to rock, jazz, pop... preferably as varied as possible!
Probably the most technically difficult thing I ever played was “Die Frau ohne Schatten” by Richard Strauss, which we played with the orchestra in Athens many years ago....every time we turned a sheet of music there were just new impossible runs....for a couple of hours!
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Hanna-Maria Strand is my name and I am a mezzo-soprano
I started singing in the girls' choir at Vreta Kloster Kyrka in Sweden when I was a child, and my voice has been formed primarily through church singing and opera (have sung in Malmö Operakor).
2010 I started as a singer in the Concert Choir.
Since 2014, I have been a permanent first alto in the Vocal Ensemble.
I am also a church singer at St Paul's Church in Copenhagen, and I freelance as a soloist
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I'm musically ”omnivorous”, but with a penchant for music from the late 1800s into the 1900s and further into contemporary music.
The most difficult thing I have ever sung is a big, demanding mezzo-soprano part in the premiere of a modern Requiem, only five days after my father suddenly passed away.