“I grew up in the picturesque part of Denmark called Mols Bjerge in a home with an old piano as the crown jewel of our humble country-side household. The bus left two times a day, so when I got home from school I immersed myself in music and in my library books. I felt alone. I dreamed myself away in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale about the flying trunk and imagined, how I would travel the world and sing and meet a lot of people when I would be old enough. One day the local music school gave a concert in the gymnastics hall of my school. I raised my 8-year-old hand and asked how much it would cost to have piano-lessons. It was expensive. Too expensive for us. Later that day I asked my music teacher Carsten, what it would cost to study piano with him. He looked at me and said “20 kroner” – That’s like 3 dollars. I guess he had seen the writing on the wall. ​ Soon after, I also joined Carsten’s school choir. There I found friends and a community, where I could root. I felt a presence in the music and a connection with the other singers. Later in life, I also experienced how music can create a feeling of unity between the performers and the audience. Extraordinary moments can appear as a result of that synergy and it adds a dimension to the music itself that cannot be recreated. I have been chasing these moments ever since throughout my years as a student at the Royal Academy of Music and since 2012 as a professional singer, songwriter, arranger, choir-leader and entrepreneur. ​​ I see my time in Vocal Line as a big and important part of my ongoing education. I have spent every Wednesday since September 2005 learning from Jens Johansen and other great choir leaders and singers from the choir. I have learned from their experience and gradually tried to follow their lead. I am still a proud member of our soprano section and besides that I have grown into the role as co-conductor of the choir. In 2009 a smaller group, named Postyr, emerged from Vocal Line. A small speedboat that is still circling the big cruise ship, Vocal Line. The two groups have a big influence on each other. Vocal Line is the foundation of Postyr and many of Postyr’s experiments influence Vocal Line in one way or the other and vice versa. ​ When people ask me, what I do, I say, that I build greenhouses. I put up frames and create communities, where the singers of my choirs, the participants at Postyr Summer Camp or at Aarhus Vocal Festival thrive and get stimulated to root and grow strong. Sometimes I need the big “garden shears” and sometimes I carefully water. I try to create spaces for the new seedlings and give room for the bigger ones to unfold. I have an ambition for the choirs and for the music, but I am also interested in the individual choir singer. If they develop their own skills and feel the music stronger, then the overall musical level of the group improves too, and thereby the chances that the magic, I chase, will happen. When it does it is like watching the elegant flow and spontaneity of a flock of birds swirling across the sky. ​​ It is a delicate discipline to balance the musical and social interplay in a group of people. You could write an entire book about the subject, and I did just that. Actually two handbooks about playful communities and social interaction using music, movements and games to get there. Long story short: When we sing together, we connect, and in the interaction between the singers, the conductor and the audience art arise.”