-Ivo Nilsson, the composer
-Franck Ollu, conductor
-Dag Metin Ardel, barytone
-KammarensembleN
Ivo Nilsson
Ivo nilsson is a composer as well as a trombonist and has studied at the
Royal College of Music in Stockholm and at IRCAM in Paris. He made his
debut as a soloist in 1989 with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
The same year his Octet was 
premiered
by the Ensemble L’Itinéraire at Radio France. Since then,
his music has been performed at numerous festivals around the world, including
the Huddersfield Festival, Sonorities (Belfast), Le Biennale du Nouvel
Ensemble Moderne (Montreal), Time of Music (Viitasaari, Finland), Inventionen
(Berlin), Gaudeamus Music Week (Amsterdam), Spaziomusica (Cagliari), Two
Days and Two Nights (Odessa) and at the Warsaw Autumn.
Besides his career as a soloist, he is a member of the KammarensembleN
and the Son Ensemble as well as the Axelsson & Nilsson Duo together
with the percussionist Jonny Axelsson.
Homepage: www.ivonilsson.com (under construction).
Franck Ollu
Franck ollu has been the artistic director of KammarensembleN since
2003. He was born in France and between 1990 and 2003 
he
was a french horn player in the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt. In recent
years he has been a much sought-after conductor and has worked with
most of the leading ensembles for contemporary music, such as Ensemble
InterContemporain, Asko Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche,
KammarensembleN, Avanti Ensemble, Queensland Symphony Orchestra and
Elision Ensemble. He has premiered works by Hans Zender, York Höller,
Emmanuel Nunes, Heiner Goebbels, Wolfgang Rihm and others.
Dag Metin Ardel
After violin studies Dag Metin Ardel entered the University College
of Opera in Stockholm where he received his diploma in Performing Arts
and Media in 1988. His musical and dramatical career includes recitals
as well as opera and drama at many of 
Sweden’s
opera and theatre stages as The Royal Opera, Drottningsholmsteatern, Orionteatern
and Oscars-teatern (The Phantom of the Opera). He has given several first
performances of Swedish music and apart from the first performance of
Rotorelief, Dag Metin Ardel also made the original performance, in collaboration
with the KammarensembleN, of Camera Obscura, written for him by the Swedish
composer Jonas Bohlin in 1997.
KammarensembleN
The KammarensembleN has been Sweden’s
leading ensemble for contemporary music since 1984. The ensemble works
in many different sizes and on all sorts of occasions and performs works
from small chamber pieces to the size of a Sinfonietta. Frequent collaborations
with directors, actors, light designers and video artists have been
significant for the productions during these two decades. The KammarensembleN
has worked with many well-known conductors from Sweden and abroad and
has performed at numerous festivals for contemporary music, such as
the Gaudeamus Festival in Amsterdam, Sonorities in Belfast, Ultima in
Oslo, Time of Music Festival in Viitasaari and the ISCM World Music
Days in Stockholm and Hong Kong.
Homepage: www.kammarensemblen.com.
