Justina Maria la Cour was born in Odense, Denmark. Former student of the brilliant professor Tatiana Samouil in Belgium (📸 Forum Musikae Madrid 2022), Justina has won numerous international prizes such as: ✨ 3rd prize at the “Rising Stars Music Competition” Berlin, Germany 2017; ✨ 2nd prize at the “Golden Classical Music Awards” Weill Recital Hall, New York, USA 2018; ✨ 1st prize as well as jury’s distinction award at the “American Protégée Concerto Competition” New York, USA 2017; ✨ 1st prize at the “Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition” Rome, Italy 2018; ✨ Prix Rotary Lausanne-Lemain, Switzerland 2018; ✨ Special Prize at the 7th International Competition “Triomphe de l’Art”, Brussels 2021; ✨ 2nd prize at the “Beethoven Young Musician Competition” Vienna 2022; ✨ 3rd prize at the “Medici Competition” UK 2022; ✨ 1st prize at the “Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition” Paris, where Justina made her debut at the Paris Philharmonic in December 2022. ✨ Absolute 1st prize at the “International Fanny Mendelssohn Online Competition” 2023. ✨ First prize at the Jean Sibelius Fest Competition 2023 in Turku, Finland Justina became laureate of the prestigious Betty and Valdemar van Hauen Grant 2023 and made her debut in the Tivoli Concert Hall (Copenhagen) with the ARCO orchestra. The violinist actively participates in chamber music events apart from her solo concerts. She is part of the “Arte Amanti” Chamber Music Festival in Belgium, first as Young Talent and now as Rising Star, were she performs regularly. Justina has also participated in the Sion Festival 2022, where she performed together with masters like Janine Jansen, Boris Brovstyn, Pablo&Sara Ferrández, Daniel Blendulf etc. Throughout her career Justina is mostly inspired by her current teacher and mentor Janine Jansen, who is regularly guiding Justina in the path of finding her unique musical voice and artistic innovation. Janine Jansen has been the young artist’s “hero” since as long as she can remember. Justina is a previous stipendiate of Augustinus Fonden (Denmark) and the Fondation Max D. Jost (Switzerland). She is currently integrated in the Advanced Postgraduate Soloist Program at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.