Mads Damlund

Mads Damlund is one of Denmark’s foremost clavichord specialists, devoted to exploring the instrument’s intimate and poetic sound world. He is an organist and pianist, educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he made his organ début in 2006. During his student years he turned to the clavichord – an instrument that has since remained at the centre of his work. This particular interest has led him to perform solo recitals across Europe, including appearances at Musica Antiqua a Magnano in Italy, the Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival in Finland, the annual meeting of the Deutsche Clavichord Gesellschaft in Wittenberg, and, in 2024, at the Chopin Festival Hamburg.

In 2022, he released Clavichord Music from the Danish Golden Age on Helikon Records, a recording that cast new light on an often overlooked chapter of Danish musical history. Two years later he founded the Copenhagen International Clavichord Festival, now held annually at Brønshøj Church, just outside central Copenhagen. Alongside his concert career, Damlund has published research on subjects including Carl Nielsen’s clavichord, and he has taken part in several programmes on the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR).