Josefine Weber Hansen is a Danish violist, composer, and singer trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and Eastman School of Music. Her work sits at the intersection of classical tradition and experimental performance, treating voice and viola as a single, shared physical medium. She is a member of the artist collectives Venteværelset and Damkapellet, and in 2025 she received the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize of DKK 100,000.
On May 12, 2025, Josefine Weber Hansen received the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize of 100,000 kr., awarded by the Léonie Sonning Music Foundation.
The Talent Prize is to finance, among other things, the recording of Josefine Weber Hansen's debut album, video production of selected works, and a study and inspiration stay in New York.
Josefine Weber Hansen studies in the soloist class at the Southern Danish Music Conservatory in the Contemporary Creative Artist program, where she composes works that blend voice and viola together.
Josefine's ensemble Damkapellet received the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl Nielsen Legacy Talent Prize in the composer category in 2021.
In 2018, Josefine Weber Hansen received the Copenhagen Odd Fellows Lodges Music Prize.
Violist and composer Josefine Weber Hansen offers a musical interpretation of Edith Södergran's poetry, blending voice and instrument in an experimental performance.
Violist and composer Josefine Weber Hansen performs poems by Edith Södergran in a musical interpretation where voice and instrument merge as a single expressive space.