Scholarships, singing and music in church

For the second year in a row, the Friends' board decided to award twice as many scholarships after the general meeting as usual - two scholarships for musicians and two for singers. And true to tradition, the recipients responded by playing and singing for an enthusiastic audience, this time in the pews of the Swedish Gustafskyrkan church.

The scholarship recipients are selected by the Friends in close collaboration with the orchestra association and the singers' association. Therefore, it was also the chairman of the Orchestra Association, Dorte Bennike, and Adam Riis from the Vocal Ensemble who motivated the choice of award recipients. The words: professional qualifications and good colleagues recurred in the motivations. Each portion is worth DKK 20,000.

The recipients were 2. Solo timpanist Nicola Carara and horn player Oscar Lejonklo from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and alto Rikke Lender and tenor Emil Lykke from the Danish National Vocal Ensemble.

As mentioned, the recipients responded with music and song. And they performed in pairs. But how can you play music together when one plays the marimba and the other the horn? You can, because Charles Taylor has written a sonata for the two instruments, and the two musicians received great applause for playing it.

The singers started with solo numbers, in Emil Lykke's case taken from the Italian heroic tenor repertoire. And together with Rikke Lender, they ended the small concert with "The very last dance", Børge Müller and Kai Normann Andersen's famous duet from the film Meet me at Cassiopeia. Not a dry eye in the pews.

After the concert, the artists agreed that the church space had been the perfect acoustic setting for the concert.