Ekkozone & Jesper Nordin
Biography Ekkozone & Jesper Nordin
Jesper Nordin
(born in 1971 in Stockholm) is a leading Swedish composer, and one who has garnered considerable international acclaim in recent years. His music, with its powerful emotional impact and traces of traditional Swedish folk music, rock music and improvised music, is broadcast and performed throughout the world. His music is performed by conductors like Esa-Pekka Salonen, Daniel Harding and Kent Nagano. His orchestral pieces have been played and/or commissioned by such orchestras as the Orchestra Philharmonique de Radio France, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Swedish and Finnish radio orchestras. He is also included in the repertoires of several of the world’s foremost contemporary music ensembles, amongst them Ensemble Itineraire, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. He was composer-in-residence for Swedish Radio’s serious music station (P2) between 2004 and 2006.
Jesper Nordin has also had huge success with his iOS app Gestrument that is based on his own composition technique. It is used worldwide to create music in genres ranging from Electronica and Techno to Jazz Impro and Contemporary Classical music.
His music has been performed at numerous festivals, including Manifeste, Musica Strasbourg, ISCM, Gaudeamus, Musiques en Scène, Ultima, Tokyo Summer Music Festival, Archipel and many others. In 2010 he received the foremost Swedish Composition Prize Christ Johnson Award for being “a sound magician, who explores and expands the acoustic space with originality and an uncompromising curiosity” (Royal Swedish Academy of Music). He has also been awarded the Lesser Christ Johnson Prize and received a recommendation at UNESCO’s Rostrum as well as several international prizes for the piece “calm like a bomb”.
Nordin studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with Pär Lindgren, Bent Sørensen and William Brunson, before taking further studies at IRCAM with Philippe Leroux and others. He subsequently was invited to be a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, where he studied with Brian Ferneyhough and worked in the CCRMA studio. His music is published by Edition Peters, Frankfurt.
