NEWS

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 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 April

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

2024 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 Feb

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

2023 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 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 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.

Kwartludium performing Fractals