Ivo Nilsson (Sweden)
Ivo Nilsson (born 1966) 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, Ensemble Son, Ensemble
Recherche, KammarensembleN, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Orchestre des
Flûtes Français, Slowind at festivals like Biennale di Venezia, 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 World Music Days in Zagreb.
His music has also been recorded by the radio companies BBC, DR, RNE,
SR and YLE and by the record labels Ariadne, Phono Suecia and SFZ
Records.
Ivo Nilsson was the artistic director of the Stockholm New Music festival in
2003 & 2005.