This year's recipient of the Friends' Scholarship is a result of the visionary people of the past.
You know, back when everything didn't have to be measured and weighed and had short time frames like 4 years, but when you had time to dream and say phrases like “what if”
The recipient was watered and blossomed in Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality, where visionary people with a love of music had created orchestras, where music was instilled in the blood of young people of the same age.
From Lyngby, the trip went to the Royal Danish Academy of Music and from there on to the Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and finally ended here at the DR Symphony Orchestra.
For 36 years he has enriched us with his wonderful musicianship as a soloist in the horn section.
In addition to his work in the orchestra, he has been a diligent chamber musician in the Diamond Ensemble and Royal Danish Brass, among others.
In the latter, they have a concept called “Brass on Wheels” where he has been able to combine his other passion of exercise (running and cycling) with a concert tour where the musicians cycle from concert venue to concert venue in Denmark.
The recipient always has their group's best interests at heart and is a huge support, especially for the new members of the horn section of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
The recipients of this year's scholarship are
Solo horn player Henning Hansen
After receiving the grant, Hennin played a small concert with a horn quartet. The horn quartet consisted of colleagues from DRSO's horn section Lasse Mauritzen, Dominika Piwkowska, Jakob Arnholz and Henning Hansen.
They played: A. Bruckner: Andante for 4 horns.
Fuzzy: From “Seven postcards from Ebeltoft and surroundings”, no. 1 “Morgenstemning i Mols Bjerge” for solo horn.
Lowell E. Shaw: Frippery No. 8 “Barbershop” for 4 horns.