NEWS

2025 / 4 May

Word premieres of solo vibraphone pieces and duo pieces for vibraphone and marimba, written for Mika Takehara and Ludvig Nilsson, in S:t Eskil Church, Haninge in Sweden.

2025 / 5 Apr

World premiere of the commissioned piece "Roots" by the ensemble Stensöta at Växjö Art Hall, Sweden.

2025 / 23 March

Portrait concert in Växjö Cathedral. Performances by Chamber Choir S:t Sigfrid, Yvonne Steen Ohlander - dir, Bengt Tribukait - organ, Cathedral String Ensemble. World premiere of the commissioned pieces "Vandrar" and "Untold Stories"

2025 / 8 March

Performance of music together with Ann Elkjär from the upcoming album "A Global Matter". Release concert during Halo festival in Växjö, Sweden.

2025 / 21 Feb

Kwartludium will perform the piece "Fractals" in

Internationales Festival für Neue Musik, Eckernförde.

2025 / 14 Feb

Kwartludium will perform the piece "Fractals" in Synagogue, Novi Sad in Serbia.

2025 / 13 Feb

Kwartludium will perform the piece "Fractals" in Belgrade Philharmonic, Serbia.

2025 / 25 Jan

Premiere of the new arrangement of the original Piece "Winter Winter" for Chamber Choir in Växjö Cathedral. Chamber Choir S:t Sigfrid & Yvonne Steen Ohlander - dir.

2024 / 10 Nov

Second performance of the solo dance performance "Rituals" with Virpi Pahkinen and world premiere of solo vibraphone pieces performed by Mika Takehara in Vallentuna teater.

2024 / 1-9 Nov

Composer Residency at NFM in Wroclaw with the ensemble LutosAir Quintet. World premiere of new piece commissioned by NFM.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritages Culture Promotion Fund within the programme "Composing Commissions" implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance. Funded by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee. STIM.

2024 Oct

Composer Residency at NeoArte Festival in Gdansk Poland with the string quartet NeoQuartet. World premiere! New piece commissioned by NeoQuartet. Funded by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee. STIM.

2024 / 6 Oct

World premiere of parts from Haninge Suite by Suedama Duo in Haninge.

2024 / 25Sep

World premiere of an old piano solo piece performed by Bengt Tribukait in Haninge.

2024 May/June

Composer Residency at Sookmyung Women´s University in Seoul/South Korea. World premiere! New piece commissioned by Contemporary Music Society of Seoul. Funded by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

2024 / 6-9 May

Chamber Opera Project with NOMAC in Haninge. (Linnéa Sundfær Casserly and Keri Kallio). Funded by Nordic Culture Fund and The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

2024 / 27 pril

World premiere! Solo percussion piece commissioned by and composed for Jonny Axelsson in Växjö.

2024 / 16 March

"EAM in The Dark" project in Härnösand, Piteå and Växjö. The Music Association NYMUS commissioned new pieces by Marsel Nichan, Lisa Stenberg and Marta Forsberg. World premiere! Funded by The Swedish Arts Council.

2024 / 27 Jan

World premiere in Piteå! EAM and bass flute. Written for Ann Elkjär. Funded by Kluster.

2023 / 28 Nov

"EAM in The Dark" project in Härnösand, Piteå and Växjö. The Music Association NYMUS commissioned new pieces by Marsel Nichan, Lisa Stenberg and Marta Forsberg. World premiere! Funded by The Swedish Arts Council.

2023 / 23-30 Oct

Composer Residency at NeoArte Festival in Gdansk Poland with the string quartet NeoQuartet. World premiere! New piece commissioned by NeoQuartet. Funded by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

2023 Mars/May

World premiere! Flute quartet piece commissioned by and composed for 40f. Performed in Stockholm, Växjö and Haninge. World premiere at Svensk Musikvår.

2023 Mars

Swedish Polish project with polish ensemble Kwartludium in Sweden. Release of new album Fractals. Funded by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Polish minister of culture and The Polish Institute in Stockholm.

This is the first release of the collaboration between the musician Mika Takehara and composer Marsel Nichan.

Mika presents music by Marsel for solo vibraphone that was written over a decade ago and also newly written duo pieces for vibraphone and marimba performed by Mika Takehara and Ludvig Nilsson .

The nature and ocean is the main inspiration that Marsel has had when composing the music in this release.

Release concert was held in S:t Eskils Church in Haninge on 4th of May 2025.

On this release "A Global Matter", Marsel takes us in his music world of EAM and electronics together with the amazing flutist Ann Elkjär. 

Recording was made at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm and the main inspiration for this release was taken from the time during Corona pandemic.

First release concert will be held during the Halo-Festival in Växjö on the 8th of March 2025 and there will be more concerts during the year where the music from this release will be performed. TBA.

This Polish-Swedish collaboration started in 2020 when the composer Marsel Nichan was granted the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's residency program with the ensemble Kwartludium. Due to the pandemic situation, the trip to Poland had to be postponed. In the meanwhile, the contact between Kwartludium and Marsel continued, and then Marsel wrote the first piece to Kwartludium (The Order in The Chaos & The Chaos in The Order) and this led to a joint project that resulted in a tour to Sweden during November 2021.

After the first successful project Kwartludium decided to commission another piece by Marsel and got financial support by the Polish minister of culture. The second piece (Fractals) was written during 2022 and was premiered 29th of October same year during The NeoArte Festival in Gdansk.

Both Kwartludium and Marsel expressed a big interest into recording these two pieces and during 2022 Kwartludium asked for more pieces from Marsel´s repertoire and they got a couple of pieces that both Marsel and the ensemble chose from to finally create this record.