Josefine Opsahl


Josefine Opsahl is a Danish composer and cellist based in Copenhagen and Berlin.
She writes classical music as a composer and also performs as solo artist with cello and live electronics and live sound design.

Biography

Born in Denmark on 18 January 1992. She studied both classical and contemporary music at the Royal [Danish Academy of Music|Royal Danish Conservatory] and Northwestern University where she completed a Master's degree in cello and later she received a degree as a composer in Contemporary Creative Art at South Danish Conservatory.
As a cellist and performer she has played and released classical music with the groups Kottos and We Like We and as a solo artist the album, Atrium, in 2022.
As a composer she has written operas, ballet music,
and numerous symphonic works, among others a cello concerto and symphonic works premiered at the Elbphilharmonie.

Awards and nominations

Josefine has received the 2022 Crown Prince Couple's Stardust Award The 2021 Léonie Sonning Music Prize and the Wilhelm Hansen Foundation's Prize of Honor 2020. In 2024, her opera "Hjem" was nominated for "Opera of the year 2023" by the Reumert Award.

Selected works