Bio

Josefine Weber Hansen is a Copenhagen-based composer, singer, and performer whose work bridges classical traditions with contemporary experimentation. With a background in both voice and viola, she crafts music that explores the range of expression between voice and instrument, interdisciplinary storytelling, and collective creation.

She holds a Master’s degree in voice from The Royal Danish Academy of Music (RDAM), where she studied with Helene Gjerris, and Bachelor’s in both voice and viola from the same institution. Her studies also took her to the Eastman School of Music in the U.S. She is currently enrolled in the Soloist programme at the Southern Danish Music Conservatory (SDMK).

Her compositions weave together voice, strings, and performance elements. Recent works include 3 Arabesker i tid & rum (2026), a solo performance work, Rosenaltaret (2026), a song cycle for voice and viola set to poetry by Edith Södergran, Tommelise (2025), a chamber opera premiered at Den Fynske Opera, and IMPRESSIONS FROM A TRIP TO POMPEII (2025), written for Esbjerg Ensemble.

She is a member of Damkapellet, a music collective dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices in classical and contemporary music, and a founding member of Kunstnerkollektivet Venteværelset, an opera company with a vision of collectively reimagining how opera is created, presented, and opened up to new audiences.

Awards include the Hans Christian Andersen Prize 2026 for the opera Tommelise, the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2025, the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Prize (2021), and the Copenhagen Odd Fellow Lodges’ Music Prize 2018.