Lumbye Akademiet

Fridolin Weigert began his first violin lessons with Ulrich Schliephake at the Leipzig Music School at the age of 6. In 2011, at 15, he joined the young talent promotion class under Prof. Friedemann Wezel at the Leipzig University of Music and Theater. In 2016, he started his bachelor’s degree with the same professor. In 2018, he continued his studies with Prof. Mi-kyung Lee at the Munich University of Music and Theater.

Fridolin received chamber music lessons from renowned musicians such as Frank Reinecke, Dirk Mommertz, Raphaël Merlin, and Silke Avehaus. Since 2022, he has been pursuing his master’s degree with Prof. Maria Egelhof at the Lübeck University of Music. Fridolin Weigert has also participated in master classes with Heime Müller, Elisabeth Kufferath, Sebastian Hamann, and Tobias Feldmann.

Fridolin is very excited to embark on his journey with the Academy. He looks forward to immersing himself in the rich culture and stunning beauty of Copenhagen while building strong bonds with his fellow Academists.

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.

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

Aneta Stefańska is a Polish cellist born in Warsaw in 1996. She completed her first master’s degree in 2020 at the Frederick Chopin Music University in Warsaw, studying with Piotr Hausenplas and Mateusz Szmyt. Since 2021, Aneta has been studying with Alexander Gebert at the University of Music in Detmold, Germany. She formed the Ixora String Quartet, with which she gained a lot of new experience and accomplishments in the field of chamber music, including winning first prize at the Auryn Competition. In 2023, she began postgraduate studies (Konzertexamen) at the same university in Detmold with her friends from the Ixora String Quartet. Aneta has been a laureate of many solo and chamber music competitions. Her most recent achievements include winning the third prize at the Danczowski Cello Competition in Poland (2023) and the prestigious DAAD Preis scholarship in 2022.

Aneta also has significant orchestral experience. Her first major experience was joining the Sinfonia Varsovia Academy in 2019/20. In the same year, she joined the European Union Youth Orchestra. She was also a member of the National Forum of Music Academy (2020/21), the Mahler Chamber Orchestra Academy (2023), and interned at Landestheater Detmold (2021/22). She is excited to begin a new and thrilling adventure with the Lumbye Orchestra Academy in Copenhagen Philharmonic starting in September 2023.

In her free time, Aneta enjoys visiting art museums and engaging in outdoor sports. She loves making friends from around the world and learning about different cultures, foods, and approaches to art. Aneta also has a keen interest in social involvement and psychology. She completed her master’s degree in clinical psychology in 2022 in Warsaw, where she had the opportunity to participate in voluntary social care work.

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.