Jesper Nordin

Conductor

- Opera
- Classical and Preclassical repertoire
- Contemporary Music

Curriculum Vitae:

Professional experience:

In May 2010, Jesper Nordin will conduct his first production at the Royal Danish Opera, the world premiere of the new opera "Waiting in Nowhere".

Since 2003, Jesper Nordin has served as assistant conductor (and from 2008 to 2010 as Studienleiter) at the Royal Danish Opera. He has there been responsible for rehearsing a wide range of repertoire, such as the complete production of Richard Wagner's Ring ('Das Rheingold', 'Die Walküre', 'Siegfried' and 'Götterdämmerung'), 'Tristan and Isolde', 'Ariadne auf Naxos', 'Elektra', 'Wozzek', 'Don Carlos', 'The Marriage of Figaro', 'Don Giovanni', 'Eugen Onegin', 'Turandot', 'Carmen', 'Il Turco in Italia', 'Cenerentola', 'Werther', 'Maskerade' and more...

In this capacity he has worked with world class conductors such as Jiri Kout, Marc Soustrot, Michael Schønwandt, Michael Boder, Friedemann Layer, Giancarlo Andretta a.o. and singers such as Placido Domingo, Stig Andersen, Irene Theorin, James Johnson, Stephen Miling, Allesandro Corbelli, Johan Reuter a.o.

Jesper Nordin has conducted the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, The Odense Symphony Orchestra, The Danish Radio Sinfonietta,, Opera Hedeland (2 years as Chorus Master) a.o.

He works regularly with danish specialist ensembles such as Athelas, Esbjerg Ensemble, Figura, Dygong, the Århus Sinfonietta a.o. on contemporary music. Having a very close relationship with the young generation of Danish composers, he has already conducted over 75 world premieres, often appearing at contemporary music festivals such as the Nordic Music Days & Sound Around.

Jesper Nordin founded in 2002 the chamber orchestra Galanteana, focusing on 18th century repertoire and composers such as Mozart, Haydn, J.C.Bach and C.P.E.Bach.

He also finds time for composing and arranging music and is published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen in Copenhagen.

Life and Music Education:

Jesper Nordin was born in 1975 in Copenhagen into a life of music. His mother taught singing and piano, and he started playing various instruments from early childhood. At age 8 he entered the Tivoli Boys Guard where he learned to play French horn and was given weekly lessons in Ear training and Theory. At the same time he made his first attempts at composing music and at age 14 was chosen to conduct the orchestra of the Guard.

In 1995 he entered the Royal Danish Academy of Music as a frenchhorn-player and after little more than 2 years at the academy he won the position as 2.horn player with the Odense Symphony Orchestra. A year later he graduated from the Academy (with top grades in theory and analysis – completing a 5 year program in only 3 years), and then devoted his time to the position in the Odense orchestra.

While playing in the orchestra he developed his skills as a composer (conducting members of the orchestra in his own music), as well as receiving conducting lessons from the Ukranian maestro Fedor Glushchenko. He was also elected to serve for 3 years in the orchestra's Programming Committee, which is responsible for the selection of conductors and soloists.

In 2002 he was accepted to the Class of Orchestra Conductors at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, completing the 3 year program with honors, allowing him a 4^th year in the prestigious Soloist Class, with a final concert held in the Black Diamond Concerthall in December 2006. At the Academy he studied orchestra conducting with Giancarlo Andretta, Frans Rasmussen and choir-conducting with Dan-Oluf Stenlund. Additional studies include theory, analysis, vocal coaching and orchestration etc.

In 2004 he studied privately with professor Janos Fürst in Paris.

-Copenhagen, 2007