VIOLIN

Niklas Walentin is Danish/Swiss, born in 1994. He began playing violin at the age of six with no musical ancestors or basis for adopting music. He made his debut from the Royal Danish Music Academy in 2017 and has twice received the grant The Young Elite from the Arts Council as both soloist and as member of Trio Vitruvi – besides numerous other prizes and grants including Music Reviewer’s Artists Prize and Talent Prize of the year by Danish National Radio P2.

Despite his young age he has already toured both as soloist and member of the Trio Vitruvi in multiple European countries, Japan, China and the US, and given concerts in some of the most prestigious halls – among these Carnegie Hall in New York, and equally collaborated with several great international conductors. He has been described as having a unique style of playing, which combines strong traditional, and old-fashioned methods with an innovative approach to the world of classical music. He plays on a Joannes Franciscus Pressenda /Q. Raphael-violin (Torino 1837) kindly lent to him by the Augustinus Fund.