The first complete performance of Daniel Nelson’s Jewish Proverbs will take place on Monday 22 September, 2014, in the Grünewaldssal of the Stockholm Concert House. It will be premiered by the ZilliacusPerssonRaitinen string trio to whom it is also dedicated.
Jewish Proverbs is comprised of ten short movements which have their programmatic origin in different humoristic proverbs from Yiddish folklore. Simultaneously, each movement is written in memory of a separate antisemitic incident in history, ranging from the earliest pogrom ever recorded, in ancient Egypt, (the Alexandrian Riots, 38 CE) to the murder of four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, Belgium in May, 2014.

My Inner Disco for accordion and string quartet is scheduled to be performed at the Burton Bradstock Festival’s gala concert, with Miloš Milivojevic playing the accordion.
In addition, the Manchester Camerata will be presenting My Inner Disco on their UpClose concert series in November, together with Lithuanian accordionist Martynas Levickis. More information about these concerts can be found on their season concert schedule.

A review of the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra’s recent performance of Analytic Tales of Mechanical Movement, a concerto for double bass and string orchestra, from Uppsala Nya Tidning.

    “But in the concert’s second work, Daniel Nelson’s brand new concerto for double bass and string orchestra, we were brought into a world of creative imagination in which the listener must be co-creative. The tension between play or fantasy objects and the mechanics that drive them required both contrast and interaction between soloist and orchestra. Glissandi, harmonics, and “slap-effects” of the strings against the fingerboard were some of the effects the soloist/orchestra performed. All four movements were brilliant, both in composition and execution. I liked the third movement best, The scribe in the forbidden city, wherein the orchestra’s delicate, breathless sound was complemented by a more introspective and sad recitative [in the solo part], presented ever higher and higher in pitch, interwoven with [orchestral] string chords. Ulla Ryman interpreted the difficult solo part -for a seemingly most unwieldy instruments as the double bass- in a dazzling elegant and expressive way. The soloist, conductor, and composer received a deservedly lengthy acknowledgement  from the audience. The [double bass] concerto was undoubtedly the most stimulating work of the concert.”

Anders Bragsjö, Uppsala Nya Tidning

Daniel Nelson’s chamber work, My Inner Disco for string quartet and accordion, will be performed in Ireland by the ConTempo Quartet and Concorde Contemporary Music Ensemble. The performances will take place in Galway on the 8th of February and in Dublin on the 30th of March, 2014.

A short clip from Daniel Nelson and choreographer Christina Tingskog’s recently premiered Boxes. Filmed by Swedish Television. From the movement Danceology 1.

Dancers – S Husjord, L Ilkjaer, A Larsson, M Lönneborg, N Zagora
Live music: Jörgen Pettersson (alto saxophone)
Prerecorded music: Nordic Chamberensemble
Light design – Thomas Mirstam

Tonight will be the premiere performance of Daniel Nelson’s brand new concerto for double bass and string orchestra, Analytic Tales of Mechanical Movement.
It will be performed by Swedish string orchestra Musica Vitae, with soloist Joel Larsson and conductor Katarina Andreasson. The concerto is a four movement ode to mechanical automatons, toys, and music boxes.

The dance performance Boxes by choreographer Christina Tingskog, with music by Daniel Nelson will be premiered in Härnösand, Sweden on 16 November, 2013. It will also be played in Sundsvall, and in Stockholm during the spring of 2014. Additional information can be found on the homepage of Scenkonstbolaget.
Choreography – Christina Tingskog
Music – Daniel Nelson
Light design – Thomas Mirstam
Dancers – S Husjord, L Ilkjaer, A Larsson, M Lönneborg, N Zagora
Live music: Jörgen Pettersson (alto saxophone)
Prerecorded music: Nordic Chamberensemble, ZilliacusPerssonRaitinen Trio