Danish Arts Foundation grants for Edition·S composers

Christian Winther Christensen. Photo: Mette Kramer Kristensen

Each year the Danish Arts Foundation provides grants for a selection of the best and most promising artists in Denmark.

This year 885 composers, songwriters and sound artists applied for grants. 253 recipients were selected, including several Edition·S composers.

Christian Winther Christensen is one of five applicants who will receive the largest grants of DKK 250,000. “40-year-old Christian Winther Christensen continues his riveting development,” the grant committee explains, “and the coming years will see spectacular performances of his music at some of the world’s most prestigious music festivals.”

Edition·S composers provided with the 2017 Danish Arts Foundation grants:

• Ylva Lund Bergner, 35,000
• Jeppe Just Christensen, 80,000
• Christian Winther Christensen, 250,000
• Rune Glerup, 80,000
• Jexper Holmen, 80,000
• Ejnar Kanding, 60,000
• Jesper Koch, 35,000
• Eva Noer Kondrup, 35,000
• Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard, 35,000
• Hans-Henrik Nordstrøm, 35,000
• Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen, 80,000
• Østen Mikal Ore, 35,000
• Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki, 80,000
• Martin Stauning, 35,000
• Simon Steen-Andersen, 60,000
• Nicolai Worsaae, 35,000
• Li-Ying Wu, 60,000
• Svend Aaquist, 35,000