Jonathan Östlund Recordings

Jonathan Östlund received his BA and MA in Composition at LTU, in Sweden. He has so far completed almost 200 works, set in a variety of constellations, including several mesmerising orchestral works and two concertos for violin.

His music is pioneered by top international musicians such as: Einar Steen-Nokleberg, Alexandr Zagorinsky, Walter Gatti, Evgeny Brakhman, Sasha Grynyuk, Matthieu Esnult, Yuri Revich, Alicja Smietana, Quatuor Enesco and the Cellini Quartet.

He has released his music under the label Divine Art Records. His albums: “Lunaris” (2CD, 2016), “Voyages” (2CD, 2019), “Mistral” (2020), “Imago” (2CD, 2021), and “Elysian” (2CD, 2023) keep receiving critical acclaim, and place him among the most exciting and prolific contemporary composers. This special collaboration continues with yet another tour-de-force new double album release, in 2024, entitled “Reveries”; representing discs ten and eleven of his music.

His achievements also include CD-releases, publications and performances with the London Schubert Players in the U.K., France and Romania throughout 2010 and 2011, as part of the ‘Invitation to Composers’ project. In 2012 he won the Public Choice Award for his Cello Sonata, premiered by A. Zagorinsky and E. Steen-Nokleberg, and was awarded 1st Prize in the Leicester Symphony Orchestra’s Composers’ Composition for his ‘Celebration Fanfare’, which was premiered during the Orchestra’s 90th Season Gala.

Various premieres followed in 2013, in the U.K. and France.

The year 2014 brought Jonathan’s music to the Cadogan Hall stage with ‘Lumières’, a programme presenting ten of his chamber works, in various constellations, performed by E. Pameijer, B. Waldmann and the Cellini Quartet. That same year, his Cello Sonata received a Russian premiere, and he was a Winner in the 2015 IBLA Grand Prize, with one of his orchestral works [the extended version of which became ‘Nocturnia’, and is featured on his third album, ‘Mistral’].

His music has been premiered and recorded in Austria, Belarus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Romania, Russia, as well as in the U.K. and in the U.S.A. ‘Concerto for Violin and Symphony Orchestra No. 2 (to be featured on the upcoming 2024 release Reveries) along with ‘Pastorale’, for soprano, male chorus and orchestra, are to receive their world premiere in Belarus.

Jonathan is currently working on his next release on Divine Art.

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