Valdemar Wenzel Most is from Nyborg, Denmark and was born into a musical family. He began playing the piano at the age of four and later he began playing the cello as well, primarily in the youth orchestra “The Zapolski Strings”. At the age of nine, he started at the singing-school at Sankt Annæ Gymnasium, where he later became a soloist in the famous Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir with which he toured all of Europe. As a boy soprano, he has performed as one of the three boys in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen. These many musical experiences have helped shape Valdemar’s musicality to this day.
Valdemar is even more renowned as a pianist, which is his primary musical discipline. He has won a number of awards and competitions, including First Prize at the Steinway Festival Piano Competition, where he was chosen as the representative of Denmark for the international Steinway Festival 2023 in Hamburg and will play in the prestigious Laeiszhalle. He also received Second Prize at the Nordic Junior Piano Competition.
Valdemar was awarded the Jacob Gade Foundations Talent Prize in 2018 and was admitted into their talent program. As a result of this award, he has played many concerts as a soloist and as a chamber musician, among these the Mendelssohn Trio in D minor with the internationally acclaimed cellist Andreas Brantelid.
Valdemar has also performed as a soloist with orchestra, including the first movement from Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, which he will perform again with Copenhagen Philharmonic and South Denmark Philharmonic this August.
Since 2014, Valdemar has studied with Professor Bella Zapolski at Copenhagen Music School. In addition, he has played at masterclasses for Ewa Pobłocka, Péter Nagy, Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist, Aristo Sham, Mirosław Herbowski and Per Tengstrand.