Born in Norrköping, Sweden, Johan Dalene began playing the violin aged 4 and made his debut with a professional symphony orchestra when he was 7. He has performed as a soloist in several countries in Europe, in China and South Africa. He has been studying with Professor Per Enoksson since 2011. He has won 1st Prize in several international competitions including Talents for Europe (Slovakia), Giovani Talenti (Italy), Stockholm International Music Competition (Sweden), Øresunds Solist (Denmark) and the Kocian Violin Competition (Czech Republic).

“I feel very honoured to get the opportunity to participate in this great competition and festival. It has been a goal for me to enter the Menuhin Competition, and I feel very lucky an happy that I was accepted. I´m looking forward to meet a lot of great musicians and to perform and to compete. I´ve been in London once before, and I really enjoyed the city, so I´m also very excited about coming there again.” (Johan Dalene)