[2] Both her parents played the piano, and her father taught her pieces by Mozart and Bach when she was very young.

She began studying piano at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Harriet Østergaard-Andersen and then subsequently with Ester Vagning.

After her schooling was complete, she studied at Oxford, under 90-year-old Leonie Gombrich, who knew such greats as Brahms, Mahler, and Bruckner.

Her discography includes works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Niels Gade, Carl Nielsen, Friedrich Kuhlau, and Tchaikovsky.

[4] She is a 2011 recipient of the Order of the Dannebrog, and in 1984 was appointed as an honorary member of the Chamber Music Association.