Karen Humle is educated at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and has also studied in London and Berlin.
Karen has previously worked in several of the major Danish orchestras – including 10 years in the Royal Danish Orchestra at The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.
Since 2006 she has been working with a new form of classical improvisation, and this led to a radical change in her work, where she created a new approach to how people and businesses can work with inspiration, innovation, development and change through the experience of music.
Karen uses intuitive improvisation to create a musical image that reflects the multiple layers of a given situation, of words and processes or simply the prevailing atmosphere and she calls this: Musical portraits.
This is a unique way to express or characterize the essence and values of a person, a group or an organization. The Musical Portrait offers a platform for unthreatening and acceptable feedback or analysis and as such may serve as a catalyst for personal, social or organizational change.
Today, Karen Humle still works as a performing violinist often with a new approach and with the improvisation as her musical language. She has recently released her 5.th CD “Dialoque. Improvisations on melodies by Carl Nielsen” with pianist Ulrich Staerk.
Selected performances, appearances and projects:
Since 2015 Artist in Residence in the first Danish Children’s Hospice, Lukashuset, Hellerup
supported by The Danish Arts Foundation
2014 Fredensborg Castle, Musical portraits to HRH Prince of Consort,
Prince Henrik´s reading and presentation of his Poems: “ Dans mes nuits sereines”
2012 – Permanent guest appearance in Our Lady Church Cathedral, Copenhagen,
Night church concerts
2011 – 12 Artist in Residence for Culture InVest Himmerland, a group of companies and artists
in the North Region of Denmark, working with innovation through creativity
2006 – 14 Associate Artist at CBS (Copenhagen Business School) under prof. Ole Fogh Kirkeby
Center for Art and Leadership, CAL
2004 – Presentations and performances at international conferences and in major Danish
companies such as Danske Bank, Danish Defence, Danish Industry, IBM, Novo
Nordic among others
CD releases
2015 Dialoque. Improvisations on Melodies by Carl Nielsen/CDclassic.dk 1152
2010 Intentions. Improvisations for violin and piano/ own publishing
2007 Romances. Small pieces for violin and piano/ Classcd 715
2005 H.C. Andersen – Billedbog uden billeder / Classcd 623
2002 Karen Humle / own publishing
Contact Karen Humle karenhumle@gmail.com mobil +45 53818800