JENS ELVEKJAER, a native of Copenhagen, has won top prizes in some of Europe’s most prestigious international competitions, including the Brahms Piano Competition of Austria, the Scandinavian Piano Competition of Denmark, and the Ferrol Piano Competition of Spain. One of Scandinavia's leading young pianists and Denmark's first Steinway Artist, Elvekjaer represented Denmark at the First Scandinavian Piano Festival and has performed widely across Europe, Asia and North America in such venues as the National Gallery in Washington, the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen, Tokyo’s Musashino Hall, Amsterdam’s Beurs van Berlage, the Austrian National Library, the Casals Festival, the Bergen and Trondheim Festivals in Norway, the Umeå Kammermusik Festival of Sweden, and the Korsholm and Kuhmo Festivals of Finland. Elvekjaer has performed as soloist with all the major Danish orchestras including the Danish National Orchestra, the Leipzig Chamber Orchestra, and many others. He has toured in Europe as soloist with Danish and German orchestras, and was reengaged to perform as soloist with the Danish National Orchestra in Denmark and Sweden in 2008. Elvekjaer's début CD (music by Debussy, Ravel and Franck) was nominated as Best Solo Album in the 2007 Danish Music Awards, and was hailed as “an extraordinary release . . . performances radiant with talent” by Denmark’s foremost newspaper, Politiken. Elvekjaer has also broadcast on the BBC, NPR, Danish Radio, the Korean Broadcasting Systems, Austrian Radio, Hessischer Rundfunk, ARD, Deutschland Radio Berlin, NRK, SR, and RAI. He is the pianist of the successful piano trio, Trio con Brio Copenhagen, which received the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award. The award includes a recording contract and an extensive tour of 20 major U.S. venues including Carnegie Hall. They won top prizes in many other competitions, including ARD (Munich); Premio Vittorio Gui (Florence); Trondheim Chamber Music Competition; Danish Radio Competition; and the prestigious “Allianz Prize” for Best Ensemble in at Germany’s Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Elvekjaer studied in Århus, Denmark; Cologne, Germany; and in the Vienna Conservatory and Salzburg Mozarteum, Austria. His teachers included John Damgaard, K.H. Kämmerling, Leonid Brumberg, Lazar Berman, Ferenc Rados, and the Alban Berg Quartett.

"Elvekjaer is master of a technique of utmost vitality, an unstinting lyricism, elegance of phrasing, and the ability to achieve the structural coherence that gives panoramic vision of the work."

—Messagero Veneto, Trieste