Lumbye Akademiet

Cassandra Andrea Juul is a Danish violinist born in 1999. She holds a Master’s degree (2024) and a Bachelor’s degree (2021) from The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, where she studied with Professor Tim Frederiksen, Visiting Professor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and Professor Eszter Haffner. Since 2024 she is enrolled in the Advanced postgraduate (soloist) programme at The Royal Danish Academy of Music and a member of the Lumbye Academy in Copenhagen Phil.

Aleksandra Halaczkiewicz is a Polish violinist who began her first lessons at the age of 7. She obtained her Bachelor Degree in the Royal Academy of Music in London, UK, the Certificate of Advanced Studies in the Hochschule der Künste Bern, Switzerland and is currently pursuing her Masters Degree in the Hochschule für Musik und T anz in Cologne, Germany. She is an active orchestra musician and holds a vast experience in that field. The highlights of her orchestra career would be becoming a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in 2021 and in the artistic season 2023/24, holding the 1st violin position for the Internship in the Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Germany. In the past years she worked with conductors such as Manfred Honeck, Trevor Pinnock, Holly Hyun Choe, Antonello Manacorda, Sir Mark Elder, T obias Wögerer.

As a chamber musician, throughout the years Aleksandra participated in numerous festivals around Europe, such as Davos Festival, Festival Pablo Casals or Accademia Internazionale Orchestra Filarmonica del Mediterraneo. As a member of guitar and violin group, Duo Arabesque, in 2022 she toured around South America with a series of chamber music concerts.

Aleksandra gained her further artistic experience during masterclasses with artists such as Corina Belcea, Marc Danel, Benjamin Schmid, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Gyorgy Pauk, Sergei Kravchenko, among others. Throughout her education, she has been kindly supported by Clarence Myerscough Trust and Albert Hänggi Stiftung.

Aleksandra plays the violin made by Luigi Rovatti in 1906 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Danish violinist Alba Thilo Nielsen began playing the violin at the age of nine. From an early stage, she displayed a profound passion for the instrument, and it soon became clear that she was destined to pursue a career as a violinist. As a child, she studied with Kristian Fogh of the Danish Radio Orchestra before continuing her education under the guidance of Alexandre Zapolski at the age of 13. Through her years in his orchestra, the Zapolski Strings, she developed as both a soloist and ensemble musician, eventually becoming concertmaster in 2019.

At 20, Alba was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where she earned her bachelor’s degree under Zapolski. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree with Frederik Øland. Throughout her studies, she has also received guidance from esteemed teachers such as Elisabeth Zeuthen Schneider, Tim Frederiksen, and Fredrik Sjölin. Chamber music has always held a special place in her heart, and she has a keen interest in exploring different genres and performance formats. In 2022, Alba performed as a substitute in the Copenhagen-based female ensemble Halvcirkel, where she enjoyed pushing the boundaries of her classical training.

Alba has been recognized in multiple youth competitions, both as a soloist and as part of Zapolski Strings. She has also participated in masterclasses with renowned musicians, including Sergei Kravchenko, Nikolaj Znaider, Elizabeth Weber, and members of the Jerusalem String Quartet. As a member of the Lumbye Academy, she looks forward to sharing the stage with her fellow academists in the years to come.

When she is not playing music, Alba enjoys reading literature and exchanging perspectives with others. She is also fond of hiking and exploring the outdoors.

Born into a Danish-Russian household in 2004, Vasilisa started receiving violin lessons with Ludmila Spektor at the age of 4, continuing her studies with Alexandre Zapolski from 2010. As of summer 2022, she has been studying with Eszter Haffner, with a year of exchange at MDW Vienna, and is expected to finalize her Master studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2025/2026.

Besides her main education, she has participated in courses with teachers like Dora Schwarzberg, Kirill Troussov, Marco Rizzi, Eduard Grach, Jan Bjøranger, Szymon Krzeszowiec, Marcin Markowicz, Alissa Margulis, Stephan Piccard and Boris Brovtsyn, made possible with the help of, Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl Nielsen Legat, Marit Dissing Eriksens Fond and Bente Calbergs Legat.

Notable events in her professional career include: being member of the Wiener Residenz Orchester, 1^st prize at “Nouvelles Etoiles”, 1^st and talent prize at “Serguei Azizian Competition, 1st prize at “4 Seasons Vienna Competition”, coaching and giving masterclasses in Tunisia in collaboration with the Hasdrubal Foundation and MDW, 1st prize at “Jacob Gade Violin Competition”, 3rd prize at “Øresunds Solist”.

As of 2025, she is very excited to embark on the musical journey as academist at the Lumbye Academy of Copenhagen Phil.

Clara Davodeau is a french violist. After studying in her hometown of Angers (France) with François Hetsch, she completed her Bachelor degree in the class of Barbara Buntrock at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. In 2019, she was a member of the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra. She then studied with Peijun Xu at the Kölner Musikhochschule. She has been working as a freelancer in Paris, and most recently, Copenhagen.

Clara has also worked extensively in producing concerts with a focus on the relationship between artists and audiences.

Photo: Paul Davodeau

Lucie is a French cellist who begun playing the cello at the age of five. She studied at the Rueil-Malmaison Conservatory, where she got two Prices with highest distinctions, and where she discovered the barok playing as well as the historical interpretation, which she tries to always keep alive in her mind and her practice. In the year 2021 she graduated from a double cursus in Musicology and Interpretation at the PSPBB while benefiting from the pedagogical approach of Xavier Gagnepain. In the year 2024 she obtained from the Royal Conservatory of Liège her Master oriented in orchestral playing with High Distinction. There she had the chance to be taught by Sébastien Walnier and Jean-Pierre Borboux who are working respectively as soloist at the orchestra of La Monnaie and co-soloist at the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège.

Soon involved in the internship at the Royal Opera of Wallonie, she took part in 2023 to the Academy of La Monnaie and the Belgium National Orchestra, while she also played as tutti substitute at the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège and at the Royal Opera of Wallonie. In 2024, she seized to the unique opportunity to discover another way of teaching during an Erasmus by Ditta Rohmann in Luzern, Switzerland.

During the year 2025, she rounded up all the kinds of practice she had always loved by teaching at the Conservatory of Cholet in France, while completing a second master degree specialised in chamber music playing and taking part to orchestras’ auditions as well as replacements within various orchestras. She is now excited to join the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra as an academist, looking for new musical adventures and relations with her colleagues.

Helena Iglesias Kolodynska is a cellist born in 2001. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen in 2023 and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree under the guidance of Fredrik Sjölin (Danish String Quartet).

Alexander Górny is a Polish double bassist. In 2018, he completed his undergraduate studies at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław with Paweł Jabłczyński. He continued his studies by completing the Artist Diploma program at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv, studying with Nir Comforty, where he participated in the “International Program for Outstanding Foreign Students”. From 2021 to 2022 he was a leader of the Israeli National Chamber Orchestra. In 2022 Alexander began his graduate studies at the Academy of Art in Szczecin with Janusz Widzyk.