Name: Julie Meile
Born 1964 in Copenhagen.
Instrument: Violin
I started playing the violin when I was 11-12 years old. I had been dancing ballet since I was 3 years old and wanted to have an instrument in my life so I could play in school orchestras and the like.
I joined DRSO in 1989.
I love playing chamber music because it's fun to be in a small context where you have a direct influence on the artistic expression. I play many concerts with my trio Trio Sono and also have a regular collaboration with organist Søren Gleerup Hansen. We'll be playing Bach's complete sonata for violin and harpsichord next year.
I love all music, but am particularly fond of the large symphonic repertoire. Music is the direct route to the emotions, and it makes me happy to both play and listen!
The hardest I ever played was Richard Strauss’ “Die Frau ohne Schatten”
Daniel Åberg is my name and I was born in 1976, I sing bass in DRVokalEnsemblet
I started singing in a boy's choir when I was eight years old and since then I've sung in many amateur choirs in Uppsala, where I come from. After that I sang in the Swedish Radio Choir, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and other professional ensembles around Stockholm before I got the position at DRVE.
I started in January 2007 when DRVE was founded.
I sing solo in various places, the biggest coincidence was when the Pope visited Lund in 2016.
My absolute favourites are St. Mary's Passion by Claudio Monteverdi and, as an a cappella work, Frank Martin's Mass for double choir. It's simply marvellous music!
The most difficult I've sung is probably the oratorio Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln by Franz Schmidt, which DRSO, DRKK and DRVE performed in December 2017. Many voices at once (to disturb each other), long phrases, fast tempo, chromatic turns and a lot of text at once. But the result was mighty!