Lumbye Akademiet

Raven Mischke is a Dutch violinist who started playing the violin when he was five years old. In 2013 he started his Bachelor studies with Johannes Leertouwer at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. In 2017 he started his Master studies with Gordan Nikolić at Codarts Rotterdam, and in 2018 with Peter Brunt and Ilya Grubert in Amsterdam. In 2021 he continued his studies at the University of Gothenburg with Øyvor Volle, enrolling in the Symphonic Orchestra Performance course. Since 2023 he is studying at the The Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen with Eszter Haffner.

Raven has had masterclasses with Pinchas Zukerman, Liviu Prunaru, Sophie Gent, Eliot Lawson, Trio Debussy, and the Zemlinksy Quartet.

Raven currently is a Lumbye academist with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra. He was a second violinist at the GöteborgsOperan Orkester between 2021 and 2023, and during this time also regularly played with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. He regularly plays with orchestras such as Wonderfeel Festival Orchestra, Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, and Sinfonia Rotterdam. He has performed under various conductors including Neeme Järvi, Leonid Grin, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Kent Nagano, Daniele Gatti, Evan Rogister, Xián Zhāng, and Junichi Hirokami. Raven also was a member of various youth/student orchestras such as the Noord Hollands Jeugd Orkest, Utrechtsch Studenten Concert, VU-Orkest, Sweelinck Orkest, JED-Phil and Nationaal Jeugd Orkest.

Raven was the conductor for youth string orchestra Camerata Amstelveen between 2017 and 2019, and regularly acts as coach and assistant conductor for the Noord Hollands Jeugd Orkest. He currently plays a Boris Sverdlik violin built in 2013, after the 1714 “Soil” Stradivarius model, and a modern bow and baroque bow both built by Andreas Grütter. In his spare time he likes to train submission grappling, visit museums, read fantasy, and browse memes.

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.

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

Winner and finalist of international and national competitions, Giovanni Landini is a young Italian cellist. He engages, with a historical approach and high respect for the score, in solo, chamber and orchestral repertoire. As a member of the Nationaal Jeugdorkest and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, he has been playing in some of the most important concert halls in Europe. He conducts an intense chamber music activity with the Mühlfeld Trio, with whom has recently won the II Prize at the XX Arnuero International Chamber Music Competition 2023 in Cantabria, Spain. After graduating from the Conservatorio “Arrigo Boito” in Parma in the class of Enrico Contini, he has been following the lessons of Giovanni Gnocchi in Fiesole, Enrico Dindo in Pavia, Sebastian Klinger in Hamburg and Gustav Rivinius at Conservatorium Maastricht.

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.