Name: Alexander Butz
Born 1976 in Mainz Germany.
Instrument: Viola
I started violin lessons at the age of 5 at the local music school using the Suzuki method.
I joined DRSO in 2012.
I love playing opera, unfortunately there's too little time for that. I also enjoy chamber music. My latest project is the viola d'amore, a string instrument with 7 strings and 7 resonating strings the size of a viola. The sound is a bit hoarse but resonates with overtones due to the many strings.
I like listening to classical and jazz music the most.
The hardest thing I ever played was György Ligeti's “Mysteries of the Macabre” .... on mandolin!!!
My name is Marianne Mailund Heuer
was born in 1982 in Aalborg and is a soprano
I started with a bachelor's degree in music from Aalborg University, where
I attended from 2003-2006. Here I received both singing lessons and enormous
a lot of knowledge about music theory and history, which greatly benefits me
good as a performing singer. In 2006 I started at the conservatory in
Aalborg specialising in classical singing and singing pedagogy. In 2011 I took
my final exams in Aalborg and won my current position in
DRKK in the same year.
I sing a lot with Bo Holten and Musica Ficta alongside DRKK,
including on several CD recordings - both as a choir singer and soloist.
Like most other classical singers, I am also employed as a
church singer, and I am lucky enough to be in Islev Church in Rødovre, where
there are great colleagues and ensemble singing at a really high level every
every single Sunday. Otherwise, I perform as a freelancer, both as a soloist and
choir singer in many different contexts.
My own voice really wants to sing quite early music like J. S.
Bach, and also Mozart is a good fit for me. It's beautiful and eternal
music, and it requires a light and agile voice, which in turn does not
need to be big and heavy - I'm never going to have any fun
With Wagner, for example. One of my absolute favourite composers for
to listen to “live” is Anton Bruckner - it's really big and
hard at times, but it's also great when I don't have to
Sing it! The energy in his lines is simply marvellous.
There are different ways something can be difficult. The nodes can be
fairly straightforward, but on the other hand technically very challenging or
Just as often the other way round. If difficult equals uncomfortable and
irredeemable, Beethoven's 9th Symphony must be high on the list, although
the music is not complicated.