updated 11 March 2022

Jesper Nordin

Swedish composer born 6 July 1971 in Stockholm.

Jesper Nordin studied at the Stockholm Royal College of Music with Pär Lindgren and Bent Sørensen, at IRCAM with Philippe Leroux, and at Stanford University/CCRMA in 2004 (as a visiting scholar) with Brian Ferneyhough.

Nordin’s musical style includes references to traditional Swedish music, rock, and improvised music. His catalogue comprises works ranging from improvised electronic music to pieces for orchestra. He has worked with orchestras and ensembles including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Basel and Trondheim Symphony Orchestras, the Swedish and Finnish Radio Orchestras, Ensemble l’Itinéraire, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, ASKO, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and the Finnish Ensemble Zagros. His music is regularly performed at international festivals such as ISCM (Amsterdam), Gaudeamus, Musiques en Scène (Lyon), WhyNote (Dijon), Ultima (Oslo), and Takefu.

Having worked at IRCAM, GRAME, and CCRMA, he is also highly active in the field of electronic music, both as a composer and a performer.

He has received commissions from major institutions in several European countries, including the French Ministry of Culture for Undercurrents, composed in 2007 for cellist Benjamin Carat. He has also received numerous accolades, including the Christ Johnson Prize (Sweden) and a commendation in the UNESCO Rostrum International Radio Competition. From 2004 to 2006, he was composer-in-residence with P2 (Swedish National Radio’s music station), giving rise to the release in 2006 of a CD of his works titled “Residues.” Since 2008, his works have been published by Peters Editions.

Notable works include Circe for percussion and ensemble, premiered in 2012 by Jean Geoffroy and Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain at the Musiques en Scène Biennale in Lyon alongside Diffusing Grains for percussion ensemble; the Pendant (2009) cycle for chamber ensemble and electronics, commissioned by Ensemble l’Itinéraire; Aftermath and In the midst of Trespassing No 2, both premiered at the Takefu Festival in 2010; Lamento d’Arianna (2009) for mixed choir; and Width of a Circle for voice and chamber ensemble, premiered by KammarensembleN and Harmony of Voices, with Franck Ollu conducting.

Jesper Nordin has developed several iOS applications, including “Gestrument” and “ScaleGen,” inspired by his own compositional techniques. These tools have been used internationally by musicians working in genres from electro and techno to improvised jazz and new music.


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Bibliographie

  • Baptiste BACOT, François-Xavier FÉRON, « The Creative Process of Sculpting the Air by Jesper Nordin: Conceiving and Performing a Concerto for Conductor with Live Electronics », Contemporary Music Review, August-October 2016, Vol. 35 Issue 4/5, p. 450-474.
  • Jesper NORDIN, « The Musical Interactivity Area — An Attempt to Map the Intersection Between Composition and Instrument Through the Use of the Gestrument Engine », Proceedings of the XXth Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT, 2020, Vol 27, Issue 2, p. 349-355.

Discographie

  • Jesper NORDIN, Frames in transit, Trio Trespassing, Johannes Gustavsson, direction, 1 cd dB Productions, 2014, dBCD 159.
  • Jesper NORDIN, Undercurrents ; Surfaces scintillantes ; Cri du berger ;The Aisle ; Pendants, Benjamin Carat, violoncelle et l’Ensemble Gageego!, Pierre-André Valade, direction, dans « Pendants », 1 cd Phono Suecia, 2012.
  • Jesper NORDIN, « Residues » : 1. Residues ; 2. Double Concerto ; 3. sleep now in the fire ; 4. Arv ; 5. calm like a bomb ; 6. inevitabilini ;7. Invisible Mantra ; 8. Vintage ; 9. Frozen still ; 10. Ingen får tro att allt är någons fel, Jean-François Laporte (1), Daniel Frankel : violon (2), Åsa Åkerberg : violoncelle (2), Rolf-Erik Nystrøm : saxophone (3), The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (1, 3), direction : Niklas Willén (1, 3), Västerås Sinfonietta, direction : Eivind Aadland (2, 4), Trondheim Symphony Orchestra (4), Daniel Frankel (5), Anna Petrini (6), The Swedish Radio Choir, direction : Andreas Hanson (7), Niklas Brommare : percussion (8), Oskar Ekberg (9), radio art (10), 2 cds SR Records, 2006.