Vindtro

Flute: Kristín Ýr Jónsdóttir
Oboe: Erika Tani
Clarinet: Kamilla Steinkjer Bentzen
Bassoon: Peder Ravn Jensen
French Horn: Julie Norén Solevad

Vindtro was founded in the spring of 2020 and is a young international woodwind quintet, based at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. The quintet is created upon five good friends’ curiosity for the constellation, and the joy of sharing music together. The ensemble consists of; Japanese Erika Tani on oboe, Icelandic Kristín Ýr Jónsdóttir on flute, Norwegian Kamilla Steinkjer Bentzen and Peder Ravn Jensen on basson and Danish Julie Norén Solevad on horn. Vindtro currently studies at The Royal Danish Academy of Music with Professor Max Artved and has been given further musical inspiration from, among others; Lasse Mauritzen (Danish National Symphony Orchestra), John Kruse (Royal Danish Opera), Audun Halvorsen and Sebastian Stevensson (Danish National Symphony Orchestra), Søren Birkelund (The Danish Woodwind Quintet) and Niels Anders Vedsten Larsen and Dóra Seres (Carion Quintet). 

The quintet won 1st Prize at the Nordic Wind Chamber Music Competition in 2021, and as a result of that, had the pleasure of performing at Festspillene i Bergen (Norway) the following year, as well as being appointed “Artist in Residence” at “Nordic Wind” until November 2023. Later that year, they performed at the “Swedish Wind Music Festival in Linköping”, sharing a concert with members of the Nörrköping Symphony Orchestra. Vindtro was selected for the Danish Radio P2 Chamber Music Competition and the Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition, and was granted the Grand Prize in the Mozart/Salzburg International Chamber Music Competition Tokyo in 2023. In June 2023 it was announced that Vindtro had received the prestigious Léonie Sonning Talent Prize. 

Vindtro’s members are all active substitutes in Nordic orchestras, here to mention; Royal Danish Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic, The Norwegian Opera, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and Danish Chamber Orchestra, together with Helsingborg, Faroese, and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.