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Christine Michaela Pryn was born in 1976. She made her
debut on Danish Radio at the age of
nine. After four years of studies with Peder Elbaek at the Royal Academy of
Music in Copenhagen (1992-95), she continued her education at the Carl
Nielsen Academy
of Music and the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen with Adolphe Mandeau (a
student of Carl Flesh). She has also participated in masterclasses given by
Christian Tetzlaff, Leon Spierer, Cho Liang Lin,
Paavo Pohjola and Reiner Kussmaul.
Christine Pryn has developed
a special affinity for modern music. She has collaborated with such
composers as Gunther Schuller, Krzysztof Penderecki, Luciano Berio,
Einojuhani Rautavaara and Rafał Augustyn.
She has performed as a soloist with the Copenhagen Philharmo-nic, the
Helsinki Symphony Orchestra, the ‘Amadeus’ Cham-ber Orchestra of
Polish Radio,
and the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra. She has worked with
the Polish conductor Jan Krenz.
She has first performances of over fifty works to her credit, including the
Violin Concerto
written specially for her by Raymond Deane (with the Natio-nal Symphony
Orchestra of Ireland). She has taken part in the Summer Festival in Tivoli,
the Edvard Grieg Festival ‘Troldhau-gen Concerts’ (in a duo with
the Swedish pianist Joachim Olsson), the ‘Warsaw Autumn’
and the Days of Karol Szymano-
wski’s Music in Zakopane. Christine Pryn’s quartet
‘Nordlys Ensemble’ represented Den-
mark at the International European Union Festival in Warsaw (2003).
Her honours include First
Prize at the Swedish Young Soloists’ Competition and the Prize of
Danish Music Critics.
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