Mathias Reumert (percussion) trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and the University of California, San Diego. He was the first percussion soloist since 1979 to receive the First Prize at the Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2007 in Amsterdam. In addition he has won first prizes in among other competitions the Concours International de Vibraphone 2002 in Clermont‑Ferrand (France), the Percussive Arts Society International Convention 2004 in Nashville (USA) and the La Jolla Symphony Soloist Competition 2004 in San Diego (USA). Mathias Reumert has given first performances to several works by established Danish and foreign composers in solo concerts in the US A, France, Holland, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. He is a member of the prizewinning ensemble the PACE Percussion Trio, and plays regularly with among others Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, the Borderline Ensemble and the Italian Duo Disecheis. Since 2008 he has been a guest teacher at the Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice which is held annually at the New England Conservatory in Boston, USA.