Amalie Malling (piano) was born in 1948 in Lübeck, Germany, to Danish
parents. She began playing the piano at six, and when the family moved to Denmark
in 1961 she took lessons from Herman D. Koppel until1968. After her debut at
seventeen in the Tivoli Concert Hall, she continued her studies with Hans Leygraf
at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover (1968-72)
and with Georg Vasarhéyi at the Jutland Academy of Music (1972-73). She
has also been on several trips to study with Alfred Brendel. Since 1972, when
Amalie Malling won First Prize in the Nordic Music Competition, she has engaged
in extensive concert activities as a soloist and chamber musician in Denmark
as well as the rest of Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan. She has won many music
prizes, including the Gade Scholarship, the Performers Prize of the Music Critics'
Circle and the Tagea Brandt Travelling Scholarship.