Ivo Nilsson (1966) is one of the foremost Swedish interpreters on his instrument – the trombone. He made his debute as a soloist with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1989 and ever since he is an innovator concerning interpretive practices. Ivo specializes in contemporary classical music and performs regularly at festivals and series of modern music worldwide. It is said about Ivo Nilsson that he as a musician is associated with “carefully constructed tonal qualities and the weighing of timbres, to the milligram”.

Ivo is a member of the ensembles KammarensembleN, Ensemble Son, Ma and Axelsson & Nilsson-duo. He is also frequently performing with internationally renowned ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Reconsil and Klangforum Wien. Ivo has received many awards during the years such as ”The interpreters price” from the Swedish Society of Composers in 2007.

Ivo Nilsson was the artistic director of Stockholm New Music festival 2003 and 2005, and he is also one of the artistic directors of Kontinent Dalsland a new international festival for contemporary music, set in Dalsland, Sweden.

He is chairman of KammarensembleN 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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Repertoire

  • Luciano Berio – Sequenza 5 (1966)

    John Cage – Solo for sliding trombone

    Luca Francesconi – Respiro (1987)

    Erik Förare – Sonata trans-form-ata… (1993)

    Maurizio Kagel – ATEM (1969-70)

    Andile Khumalo – Who are you not to be? (2017)

    Cristian Marina – Vae (1998)

    Arne Nordheim – The hunting of the SNARK (1976)

    Kent Olofsson – Treccia (2000)

    Kjell Perder – Vocuna 2 (1995)

    Lars Sandberg – Med ett visst sjungande uttryck (alto trombone) (1998)

    Giacinto Scelsi – Tre Pezzi (1954)

    Peter Schuback – Am Rand

    Volker Staub – Fünf stücke für Posaune + Nr. 19 teil 5 (1991)

    David Swärd – Windstep (2002)

    Roberta Vacca – Far Away

    Christian Wolf – Ruth

    Iannis Xenakis – Keren (1986)

  • Javier Alvarez – Mambo Vinko (1993)

    Lars Gunnar Bodin – On speaking terms

    Fabio Cifariello-Ciardi – Appunti per amanti simultanei I

    Luca Francesconi – Animus 

    Per Mårtensson – Cronus unfolded (2005)

    Idin Samimi Mofakham – Avaz (2019)

    Ivo Nilsson – Area d´Aria (2016), Sirenata (2019)

    Arne Nordheim – The return of the SNARK

    Nicola Sani – The Shofar place (2022)

    Marco Stroppa – I will not kiss your f.ing flag (2005)

  • Richard Barett – EARTH (1988)

    Björn Bjurling – The Approximate Man (2002)

    John Cage – Ryoanji

    Simon Christensen – Studies for alto-trb & perc (2002)

    Henrik Denerin – Opus Incertum (2019)

    Dror Feiler – Even the blood must sleep (1990)

    Michael Finnisey – Quobara (1987-88)

    Johannes Fritsch – 12.99-01.00 (2000)

    Peter Hansen – Elegi (1999)

    Ulfar Ingi Haraldsson – Of things past (2002)

    Kay Holmquist – Diffusion (2001)

    Zbigniew Karkowski – Execution of intelligence (1990)

    Claude Lenners – Dialogue II (1984)

    Christer Lindwall – Sirén (1990-91)

    Ivo Nilsson – Deaf mute (1998)

    Ivo Nilsson – Rotor 2 (1999)

    Kent Olofsson – The monolith masque (1994)

    Mats Persson – Stilleben (1996)

    Mauricio Pisati – Schack (2001)

    Karin Rehnqvist – Dådra (1992)

    Alexander Shchetynsky – Pendulum (2002)

    Volker Staub – Nordost (2007), Trombone and Percussion (2022)

    Tommy Zwedberg – Slow Reflection (2002)

  • Vinko Globokar – Dos à Dos

    Madeleine Isaksson – Capriola

    Chrichan Larson – Toile Tournée

    Cristian Marina – Girospira

    Miklos Maros – Medaglia

    Arne Mellnäs – Rendez vous 4

    Pierre-Stéphane Meugé – Trombax

    Ivo Nilsson – Sotto vuoto

    Maurizio Pisati – Ö

    Henrik Strindberg – Rapidité

    Caspar Johannes Walter – Durscheinende Etüde 5

  • Gérard Grisey – Solo pour deux

  • Aldo Clementi – Berceuse (with wind ensemble)

    Aaron Holloway-Nahum – Days, Distance, Days (2023)

  • Lars Ekström – Do it, Ivo!

    Lars Ekström – Ocean of Time

    Miklos Maros – Concerto per Trombone

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