In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin - without doing it too ….

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural..

I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the easiest. I enjoy the….

To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of wood, that there are almost no mechanics in….

It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well..

Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible..

When I was very young, Denmark was a very small country, and we still are, but it was then very provincial and everybody knew everybody. Now, we are ….

In concert, I often try to feel the audience and feel their way of hearing. If I feel that there is no contact between the audience and the music, I ….

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself..

When you play the oboe, the flute or other wind instruments, there is something between you and the breath; there is the embouchure, the reed, etc. B….

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teache….

You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument..

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin..

It is not very natural to make dynamic changes with the recorder. When you play a long note and want to make a diminuendo, the pitch will fall, and v….

Looking for inspiration in expression, I have actually always looked to singers and violinists. I have never really looked only at the recorder as a ….

If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned how to do something right….

It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot by assuming that anything done o….

I think that today, in Europe at least, people don't tend to think so much about the instrument that is producing the music; they are more interested….

Denmark is, of course is very much like Germany: in terms of culture, the same kind of thinking, etc..

Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances..