Ivo Nilsson

Ivo Nilsson is educated at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and at IRCAM in Paris. In 1989 his Octet was premiered by the Ensemble L’Itinéraire at Radio France. Since then, his music has been performed by ensembles such as Cantus, Either/Or, Ensemble Reconsil, Ensemble Son, KammarensembleN, Kammerensemble Neue Music Berlin, Kroumata Percussion Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Orchestra dell' Arena di Verona, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestre des Flûtes Français, Orchestrutopica, Slowind at festivals like Biennale di Venezia, Chiffren festival (Kiel), Enescu festival (Bucarest), Gaudeamus Music Days (Amsterdam), Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival, Ilhom (Tashkent), Musica (Strasbourg), Roaring Hoofs (Mongolia), 2 Days and 2 Nights (Odessa), Sonorities (Belfast), Spazio Musica (Cagliari), Spectra (Tirana), Time of music (Viitasaari), Ultima (Oslo), Warsaw Automn and the ISCM World Music Days in Hong-Kong, Stockholm and Zagreb.

His music has also been broadcasted by the radio companies BBC, DR, RAI, RNE, SR, SRR, WDR and YLE as well as released on the record labels Ariadne, Phono Suecia and SFZ Records.

Ivo Nilsson was the artistic director of the Stockholm New Music festival in 2003 & 2005.

Title: 
More objects with destinations

Year of composition: 
2009

Instrumentation: 
Orchestra 2222-221-Timp.1 perc-Strings

Duration: 
8´

Publisher: 
SMIC

Date of first performance: 
2009-09-30

Place of first performance: 
Teatro alle Tese, La Biennale di Venezia

Ensemble:
Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, cond. Renato Rivolta

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Title: 
Torso

Year of composition: 
2004

Instrumentation: 
orchestra -- 3*3*4*3* 4321 12 1 str, pf

Duration: 
10

Publisher: 
SMIC

Date of first performance: 
2004-10-22

Place of first performance: 
Venezia, Teatro Malibran (48. festival internazionale di musica contemporanea)

Ensemble:
Orchestra dell' Arena di Verona, dir Paul Manns

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Title: 
Doppler Wobbler

Subtitle: 
Double concerto for viola, bassoon and 
9 instruments

Year of composition: 
2011-2012

Instrumentation: 
fl,cl,bsn,trp,hrn,piano,2vln,vla,vlc,cb

Duration: 
16´

Publisher: 
SMIC

Date of first performance: 
2012-02-10

Place of first performance: 
Chiffren festival, Kiel

Ensemble:
KammarensembleN, Cond. Franck Ollu

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Title: 
NEJD

Year of composition: 
2010

Instrumentation: 
voices: 3 sopranos,3 altos, tenor, baritone, bass

fl,cl,trp,hrp,vibr,mar,vln,vlc,cb

Duration: 
23´

Publisher: 
SMIC

Date of first performance: 
2010-10-08

Place of first performance: 
Connect festival, Palladium, Malmö

Ensemble:
Vokalharmonin & KammarensembleN

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Title:
Lunaria

Year of comp:
2007-08

Instrumentation:
Soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and bass cimbalon (alt. piano)

Duration:
15

Publisher:
SMIC

Premiered yyyy-mm-dd:
2008-02-23

Place:
Musikmuseet, Stockholm

Performers:
Ensemble MA, soprano Ibba Andersson, conductor Staffan Larson

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Title:
ROTORELIEF

Text:
Duchamp, Marcel

Language:
French

Year of comp:
2001

Instrumentation:
f voice and chamber ensemble -- 1111 1110 01 1 str, pf

Duration:
60

Publisher:
SMIC

Premiered yyyy-mm-dd:
2001-11-10

Place:
Kulturhuset, Stockholm

Performers:
KammarensembleN, dir B Tommy Andersson

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Title:
Agnosi

Year of comp:
1988

Instrumentation:
pour hautbois, saxophone, trompette, harpe et quatuor à cordes

Duration:
9

Publisher:
SMIC

Premiered yyyy-mm-dd:
1989-03-07

Place:
Paris, Radio France

Performers:
Ensemble L'Itinéraire

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Title: 
Hereabouts

Year of composition: 
2012-13

Instrumentation: 
Saxophone, Trombone, Guitar,Cimbalom, Piano, Vibraphone, Violin & Cello

Duration: 
15´

Publisher: 
SMIC

Date of first performance: 
2013-10-03

Place:
Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, Buffalo

Performers:
Ensemble Son & Either/Or

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Title:
Apnea

Year of comp:
2004

Instrumentation:
p quintetto di fiati -- fl, ob, cl, cor, fag

Duration:
9'

Publisher:
SMIC

Premiered:
2004-10-10

Place:
Ljubljana, Slovenian Radio

Performers:
Slowind

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Title:
Gedeckt

Year of composition: 
2008-09

Instrumentation: 
alto flute and electronics

Duration: 
15'

Publisher: 
SMIC

Date of first performance: 
2009-07-17

Place of first performance:
Berlin, COMA Centre for opinions in music and arts

Ensemble:
Erik Drescher

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Title: 
Object with destinations

Year of composition: 
2008

Instrumentation: 
soprano,clarinet, contrabassoon, bass saxophone,trumpet, piano, vibraphone, marimba,violin, viola, cello, doublebass

Duration: 
4´

Publisher: 
SMIC

Date of first performance: 
2008-10-11

Place of first performance: 
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Ensemble:
KammarensembleN

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Title:
5 actions

Year of composition: 
2008

Instrumentation: 
percussion duo

Duration: 
12´

Publisher: 
SMIC

Date of first performance: 
2008-09-26

Place of first performance: 
Pusterviksteatern, Gothenburg

Ensemble:
Amund Sjölie Sveen, Yi-Ping Yang

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Title:
Toccata

Year of composition: 
2007

Instrumentation: 
per sestetto di percussionisti

Duration: 
14'

Publisher: 
SMIC

Date of first performance: 
2009-10-03

Place of first performance: 
ISCM World New Music Days, Artisten Göteborg

Ensemble:
Kroumata

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Title:
Sotto vuoto

Year of comp:
2003

Instrumentation:
p sassofono tenore e trombone

Duration:
12

Publisher:
SMIC

Premiered:
2003-10-30

Place:
Rome, Hungarian Academy (Nuovi Spazi Musicali)

Performers:
Jörgen Pettersson, Ivo Nilsson

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