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Om Ivo Nilsson
Ivo Nilsson (1966) is a swedish composer, who made his debute with an Octet performed by Ensemble l´Itineraire at Radio France in 1989. Ever since his music has been performed at festivals like La Biennale di Venezia, Chiffren, EMUfest, Enescu festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival, Ilhom, Musica, New York City Electroacoustical Music Festival, Roaring Hoofs, 2 Days and 2 Nights, Sonorities, Spazio Musica, Spectra, Time of music, Ultima, Warsaw Automn and the ISCM World Music Days in Hong-Kong and Zagreb.
Ivo is also known and appreciated for working interdisciplinary and experimental. Recently he composed the music for an adaption into ascenic earplay of Anne Carsons text Red Doc that was premiered at Accelerator in Stockholm in February 2023. The literary references are many in Ivo Nilssons impressive list of compositions inspired by textsfrom for instance Italo Calvino and Nelly Sach. In his music Ivo is elaborating temporal qualities and examines the movement from the tiny to the vast – working with tensions between the intimate moment and the distance.
Ivo Nilsson was the artistic director of Stockholm New Music festival 2003 and 2005, and he is also one of the artistic directors of KontinentDalsland, a new international festival for contemporary music set in Dalsland, Sweden.
He is chairman of KammarensebleN and he was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2017. He is a much appreciated lecturer and holder of master classes all over the world.
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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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