Jonathan Östlund, compositeur

Jonathan Ostlund  has shown a strong interest for music from a very early age and has pursued his passion with studies in composition at the Technological Universityof Lulea in Sweden. He studied under the artistic direction of Professor Rolf Martinsson, Professor Jan Sandstrom and Professor Sverker Jullander and has completed approximately 80 works to this day, of which are several orchestral pieces and a concerto for piano. Among his most recent realizations is the selection and the participation with several other works in the project initiated by the London Schubert Players ‘Invitation to Composers’; an international competition for composers which consists of CDs, press and publications and concerts in the United Kingdom, France and Romania in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, he was a finalist in the Oslo Grieg Festival’ and was awarded the Public Prize with his Sonata for cello and piano ‘Nightstruck’, performed by Alexandr Zagorinsky and Einar Steen-Nøkleberg.

He received the first prize in the Composers’ Competition organised by the Leicester Symphony Orchestra with the piece ‘Celebration Fanfare & Procession’ which was created for the 90^th Season of the Leicester Symphony Orchestra Gala in the UK. In 2013, ‘Starlight’, written in honour of Silvestri’s 100th birthday, saw its world premier in the United Kingdom and a premier in France, accompanied by ‘Dream and Moon’

That same year, he was chosen as a finalist at the Composers’ Competition of the World Festival of Sub-Marine Imagery. 2014 has brought Jonathan Ostlund’s music to Cadogan Hall with ‘Lights’, a rich programme which contains ten pieces in different constellations for flute, piano and string quartet interpreted by Eleonore Pameijer, Blandine Waldmann and the Cellini Quartet. In the same year, ‘Nightstruck’ was performed by Alexandr Zagorinsky and Einar Steen-Nøkleberg in the Moscow International Autumn Festival of Contemporary Music.