Jesper Tjærby Korneliusen
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Jesper Tjærby Korneliusen was born in Copenhagen in 1972. He studied with Bent Lylloff at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory. From 1996 to 1999 he was a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, where he played under conductors including Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Kent Nagano, Franz Welser-Möst, Seiji Ozawa and Semyon Bychkov. He began his career as principal timpanist of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Southern Westphalia; since 2004 he has been principal timpanist of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. Here, he received the Eduard Söring Prize in 2005. Since 2017 Jesper Tjærby Korneliusen has also played regularly in the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.