Tine Fris-Ronsfeld (Denmark)
Tine Fris-Ronfeld is a Danish singer well-known throughout the choir and vocal music scene for her work as a singer, composer and arranger for the contemporary experimental vocal group “Postyr” and for her work as a singer, arranger and co-conductor of the renowned pop choir “Vocal Line”, with whom she won the 1st. Prize of The Eurovision Choir of the Year 2019. Tine has toured extensively in Europe, Asia, and the Americas with both Postyr and Vocal Line.
Tine has been a member of Vocal Line since 2005. With Vocal Line she has performed with artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Rolling Stones, Tina Dickow, Mads Langer, Lukas Graham and The Real Group in venues such as Elb Philharmonie, Berliner Philharmonie, Rose Hall Theatre at Lincoln Centre, Orange Stage at Roskilde Festival and the concert hall of Tivoli Gardens, The Royal Theatre of Denmark and The Danish National Radio Concert Hall.
Tine is a founding member of Postyr. With Postyr she has performed at venues such as Shenzen Concert Hall, Taichung Jazz Festival, and as main act at vocal festivals such as Europa Cantat, Boston Sings, Shanghai A Cappella Festival and other festivals in Europe, the US and in Taiwan and China. Postyr has won several international awards, among others a CARA-award for Best European Album for “Paper Tiger”, best European EP for “Footprints”, and 1. Prize of Tampere Vocal Music Competition. Postyr’s singles have been in radio rotation in Germany and the group has placed commercial syncs for companies like Samsung, Vero Moda and Danmarks Radio.
Tine is also an internationally published arranger of sheet music for choirs and a cappella groups and co-author of the books ”Icebreakers – A practical Approach to Group Dynamics”, “Breaking the Ice – a Playful Approach to Social Interaction”, and “Choir Warm Up – A Handbook on Choral Warm Up, Vocal Technique and Singing Together”.
Recently she has created of a video series with teaching material for choir leaders published by “A Cappella Masterclass” and digital teaching material regarding composition for kids together with her colleague Kristoffer Fynbo Thorning and Sing Ireland.
Furthermore, Tine was the conductor of the award-winning Danish pop choir Lyt from 2013-2023, and the co-conductor of the award-winning National Danish Youth Choir Syng Selected from 2018-2020.
Since 2015 Tine has served as a member of the jury in the Chinese A Cappella Award “Beehive Awards” and on multiple occasions as a member of the jury in competitions in Europe, the US and Taiwan. Furthermore, Tine is a member of the advisory board of CASA – The Contemporary Acappella Society of America and the European Choral Associations think tank “Singtank”.
Tine Fris-Ronsfeld is a graduate of The Royal Academy of Music/RAMA Vocal Centre in Denmark and holds a soloist degree in pop/jazz choirleading and choir conducting and a master degree in pop/jazz singing and singing pedagogy.,
She has more than 20 years of experience teaching solo singers, choirs and vocal groups in singing, stage performance and icebreakers. She has worked as a voice teacher at MGK Aarhus, where she has also directed the choir for a number of years. She has been a guest teacher at The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus and Aalborg, Karlsruhe Musikhochschule and Univerität der Künste in Berlin and at vocal festivals, choir summits, and seminars in Norway, Sweden, England, Germany, the Netherlands, France, the US, Türkiye, Lithuania, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.
You can find more about Tine at www.tinefris-ronsfeld.com
