About Kathrin Lorenzen
Soprano Kathrin Lorenzen was born in Flensburg in 1994 and grew up on a farm owned by her family in fifth generation.
She began church music studies at HMT Leipzig and sang in a wide variety of choirs and ensembles, including the German National Youth Choir, the Kammerchor Stuttgart and the World Youth Choir. During her studies, the desire to make singing her main instrument and career grew steadily. After further organ and vocal studies at HfM Saar (under Prof. Ruth Ziesak), she moved to Stockholm in 2021, after winning auditions for permanent employment and member of the Swedish Radio Choir. At the same time, she continued her master studies in singing at KMH Stockholm (under Prof. Bo Rosenkull).
In recent years, Kathrin established herself as a sought-after soloist and concert singer in Germany and Scandinavia. She has become particularly fond of art singing in all its forms and enjoys developing new concert concepts
Kathrin is the recipient of several awards and scholarships (Nikolaus Reiser-Stiftung, Richard-Wagner-Verband, KMA-stipendiat etc. In 2023 she won 1st prize and the audience prize at the 12th International Telemann Competition in Magdeburg. Kathrin is the winner of Solistpriset 2024 ("The Soloist Prize"), the biggest prize awarded by the Swedish Royal Academy of Music for young musicians, being the first singer in 16 years to achieve that.
In June 2024 she received 2nd prize and the honorary audience award at the Mirjam Helin International Voice Competition.
About Oskar Ekberg
Since his debut with Sweden's Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2004, Oskar Ekberg has been highly in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician, nationally and internationally. He has received great appreciation for his commitment to Swedish music, with several notable solo recordings on CD with music by Elfrida Andrée, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad and the complete keyboard suites by Swedish baroque composer Johan Helmich Roman (Grammy nominee for Best Classical Album). His repertoire choices are often characterized by an interest in highlighting the forgotten but fantastic. He is also vivid ambassador for Olivier Messiaen's piano music, which he performs extensively.
In addition to a rich concert schedule, he in 2016 was employed as a professor of piano at Marie Cederschiöld College in Stockholm.
Duo Lorenzen-Ekberg
Duo Lorenzen-Ekberg started their collaboration in 2022 and have since performed on a large number of stages in Sweden, from Luleå in the north to Kalmar in the south, from Gothenburg in the west to Mariehamn in the east. The duo's personal expression and innovative program choices have consistently received great appreciation. In 2024, the duo appeared with profilic concerts within prestigious festivals such as Båstad Chamber Music Festival and the international Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, claiming recognition for their innovative program choices as well as their musical qualities. Their collaboration as a combined duo was also noticed and praised during the Mirjam Helin International Song Competition, where Kathrin was eventually awarded 2nd prize as well as the audience prize.
As a duo they have been coached in song interpretation by i.e. Jorma Hynninen, Camilla Tilling, Bo Rosenkull and Kristian Attila.
In 2024 Duo Lorenzen-Ekberg was awarded The Swedish Royal Academy of Music's Dorothy Irving large scholarship for lied duos, which is awarded once every two years. In their motivation the jury praised the duo’s “captivatingly light, interwoven and humorous, yet deep, portrayal of human dimensions” as well as their “exposure of the existential abyss in Scandinavian lied”.
In connection with the Doroth Irving prize they made an acclaimed debut in the Grünewald Hall at the Stockholm Concert Hall, described as “hysterical and historical”.
Upcoming performances in 2025-26 include a duo tour in of Musik i Syd, several lied concerts in Sweden, Finland and Germany, a CD-recording with music by Johanna Müller-Hermann, collaboration with filmmaker David Tarrodi in a project regarding Olivier Messiaen’s “Poèmes pour Mi” and a commission of a new song cycle, written especially for the duo, by German composer Moritz Eggert.
Duo Lorenzen-Ekberg wants to honor the power of chamber music in their work and strives to push the boundaries of the art of lied, thus having as their motto to affect, arouse and agitate.