When I was very young, Denmark was a very small country, and we still are, but it was then very provincial and everybody knew everybody. Now, we are very much like the rest of the world, especially with the arrival of the internet.

You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

Denmark is, of course is very much like Germany: in terms of culture, the same kind of thinking, etc.

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

Looking for inspiration in expression, I have actually always looked to singers and violinists. I have never really looked only at the recorder as a remedy for my expressions.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.