The guitarist Jesper Sivebæk (f. ) trained at the West Jutland Academy of Music with the associated professor Jørgen Bjørslev and made his debut from the soloist class of the Malmö Academy of Music with Professor Per-Olof Johnsson as his teacher. Later came studies in Montreal in Canada. He is a co-founder of the Scandinavian Guitar Duo, which won the DR Chamber Music Competition in 1993. Jesper Sivebæk is a permanent member of Ensemble
Fyn, and since 2005 has played regularly with the cellist Niels Ullner. In 1996 he was engaged by the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense, and from 2007 he has been an associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. He has further been a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Malmö Academy of Music and the Academy of Music in Tallinn. Jesper Sivebæk has extensive concert engagements as a soloist and chamber musician and has played Danish first performances of Karl Aage Rasmussen's guitar concerto Invisible Mirrors, Lars Heegård's guitar concerto Rituals, Ulrik Neumann's Guitar Concerto, Anders Koppel's Concertino and Psalmodies by Poul Ruders.