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"Marsel creates exciting sounds in his works that are both playful and accessible." - Tore Sjöqvist, Växjöbladet

"Marsel shows in this work both his love for music and the instrument. Well-composed and beautiful piece with an exciting sound world we are treated to" - Ladis Muller, Smp

"With a musical richness and a wide source of inspiration, Marsel lets the audience experience a fantastic world with exciting sounds that leave no one untouched." - Thomas Liljeholm

"One would like to hear this performance more times to be able to get to know it a little better. While the work is inviting and beautiful, it contains a lot of exciting things that both attract and challenge. The style and temperament varies from the opening fanfare where intense loops of tone wander through the voices over the baritone saxophone's powerful bass to the epilogue's rapidly descending chords that transition into a small melodic loop that repeats and develops in a way that makes it easy to think of it as film music. In between, you are treated to exciting rhythms that give a lot of space for silence, a silence that is also an important part of the part "Total Silence & Empty Spaces" where the quartet plays the keys but without tone and a kind of sounds that uses the voices of the musicians. All in a way that attracts more listeners.” - Tore Sjöqvist, Växjöbladet

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”Marsel skapar spännande klanger i hans verk som är både lekfulla och tillgängliga.” - Tore Sjöqvist, Växjöbladet

”Marsel visar i detta verk både sin kärlek till musiken och instrumentet. Välkomponerat och vackert stycke med en spännande ljudvärld vi bjuds på” - Ladis Muller, Smp

”Med en musikalisk rikedom och bred inspirationskälla låter Marsel publiken få uppleva en fantastisk värld med spännande klanger som lämnar ingen oberörd.” - Thomas Liljeholm

”Detta framförande skulle man gärna få höra fler gånger för att kunna bekanta sig lite närmare. Samtidigt som verket är inbjudande och vackert innehåller det mycket spännande som både lockar och utmanar. Stil och temperament varierar från den inledande fanfaren där intensiva tonslingor vandra genom stämmorna över barytonsaxofonens mäktiga basmatta till epilogens snabbt sjunkande ackord som går över i en liten melodislinga som upprepas och utvecklas på ett sätt som gör att man lätt skulle kunna tänka sig den som filmmusik. Däremellan bjuds man på spännande rytmiseringar som ger stort utrymme för tystnad, en tystnad som också är en viktig del i satsen Total Silence & Empty Spaces där kvartetten spelar på klaffarna men utan ton och ett slags ljudspel som använder musikernas röster. Allt på ett sätt som lockar till fler lyssningar.”

Tore Sjöqvist, Växjöbladet

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Marsel Nichan

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Marsel Nichan is a versatile composer living in Stockholm. As a composer, Marsel constantly balances between several sources of cultural inspiration. In that sense, he is a time-typical representative of a growing composer generation that is increasingly being influenced - impressions / expressions - from a multicultural society. For Marsel personally, this complex diversity is not formed into separate incidents or decorative splashes of color, but rather a sort of artistic wholeness, an insoluble composite or alloy. Today's expansive soundscape provides a treasure trove for his creation, a constant source of inspiration and renewal.

Marsel Nichan's music is dramatic - for him, all the elements of the music are equally important. He believes that it is in that way composers can create a holistic picture of what they want to express with their music. Among his works you will find compositions for both solo instruments and various sizes of chamber ensembles, orchestral works, works for choir, film music and electroacoustic music.

In 2006 Marsel finished his music composition and musicology studies with a focus on contemporary music. But his composition studies started already in the music school when he was 16 years old. He also studied Electroacoustic music composition in Växjö for Anders Blomqvist and in Stockholm at EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) in 2009. During 2013/2014 he attended master classes in conducting for Mika Eichenholz. Other teachers/mentors that he has studied for is Ladis Müller, Thomas Liljeholm, Hans Parment and Svante Widén.

Marsel was chosen as the composer in residence in 2020/2021 with the ensemble Kwartludium in Poland (The programme is run by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee).

During 2023 & 2024 he was chosen to be composer in residence at the festival NeoArte with the string quartet NeoQuartet (2 commissioned pieces by the ensemble was given their world premiere - "Rites" & "Deus ex Machina").

In 2024 he was invited to Seoul by CMSS (Contemporary Music Society in Seoul) to be a composer in residence and the house ensemble performed the world premiere of his composition "Ceremony" that they commissioned.

In 2024 we was invited by NFM (National Forum of Music) in Wroclaw to be a composer in residence with the wind quintet LutosAir Quintet. During his time the quintet performed the world premiere of the his piece "Ricochet" that was commissioned by NFM.

Marsel runs his own record company Nichan Records. He is also Chairman/Artistic Director of the contemporary music association Media Artes and Founder/Artistic Director of the contemporary cultural association Nuova Arte.