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The Children's Choir of the Royal Danish Academy of Music of Music was founded in 1978 by Margrete Enevold, with the purpose of being a practise choir for future conductors and teachers. From 1999-2004 and again from 2007 the Choir is conducted by Bente Colding-Jørgensen. From 2004-2007 the conductor was Vibeke Sahner Ockelmann. Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary is patron of the Choir.
Since 1978 the Children's Choir of the Royal Danish Academy of Music has developed into a well regarded concert choir. In 1995, invited by the Danish Radio, the choir ended no. 3 in the international competition Let the Peoples Sing. The Choir has recorded 4 Compact Discs; three CDs with church music and one with music from the South America tour of 1994. The Children's Choir has had numerous performances in radio and tv, and has performed all over Denmark as well as the rest of the world - Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Germany, USA, Israel, Argentina, Brazil, Greenland, Austria, China, Greece, where the Choir was awarded silver medal in the prestigious annual international competition in Preveza, and - in 2005 - in Paris.
The Children's Choir of the Royal Danish Academy of Music consists of about 60 talented children, aged 10 to 16, coming from the Copenhagen area. It is accompanied by the organist and composer, Jakob Lorentzen. Aspiring to the Choir is a "Little Choir" of younger children, aged 7-10. Victor Borge was the patron of the Children's Choir until his death, December 23th, 2000. |