Niklas Johansen Release October 3, 2025
Niklas Johansen
Guitar
Niklas Johansen is a Danish classical guitarist based in Copenhagen. He has won numerous first prizes at international guitar competitions in China, Greece, Bulgaria, Austria, Italy, Poland and Germany, and nationally he has received numerous awards and grants such as the P2 Talent Prize and the Sonning Talent Prize.
As a concert guitarist, Niklas Johansen has played in more than 20 countries around the world, including Australia, Russia and large parts of China.
He has often performed with renowned orchestras and ensembles such as the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Vocal Ensemble and ADDA Simfónica Alicante.
He performs both as a solo guitarist and in various chamber music contexts. His passion for contemporary music has driven him to premiere numerous works, often collaborating with composers who had yet to write for the classical guitar. In addition to his extensive concert activity, Niklas Johansen is often played on the radio, and he has several releases behind him, which have been heard by more than half a million listeners worldwide.
Niklas Johansen studied classical guitar at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Jesper Sivebæk, at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar with Ricardo Gallén, and at the Universidad de Alicante with David Russell and Manuel Barrueco, among others. At all places he received the highest grade, including the Latin honor “cum laude”. Besides his concert activities Niklas Johansen has a teaching position at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen as well as the two pre-academy institutions of Copenhagen, and he’s the cofounder of the annual international summer course Danish Guitar Camp