Jonny Axelsson is a Swedish percussionist, composer and improviser. As a performer of contemporary music he has recorded works by composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Christian Wolff and Kevin Volans as well as Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Zyklus” and “Kontakte”. He has worked with composers such as Karin Rehnqvist, Christopher Fox, Volker Staub and Johannes Fritsch, has appeared with the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Musica Vitae and KammarensembleN, and initiated the first Swedish performance of Steve Reich’s “Drumming”. In 2004 he received the performers’ prize of the Swedish composers’ association, to which he also belongs as a composer. As a composer he writes on commission from ensembles, choreographers and film-makers. On the Cybele album Feedback Studio Köln Vol. 11 – Johannes Fritsch: Damals-Triptychon (2011) he plays percussion.
Jonny Axelsson
Percussion
