- Jonny has recorded Asanga, Akrodha and She who sleeps with a small blanket by Kevin Volans, and Apollo’s Touch by Rodney Sharman. Enclosed on the CD is also a documentation of the live recording of ‘Jonny Axelsson Performing Akrodha’, a video by Peter O’Kennedy. The CD can be purchased on this website!
- Jonny Axelsson played at the ‘Kevin Volans Day’ at the Wigmore Hall in London, October 31 -09. There were two concerts, where he performed the three solo pieces and the Smith Quartet performed “White man sleeps” and “Hunting: Gathering”. Kevin Volans himself performed in the World Premiere of “Shiva Dances”, together with Garth Knox (Piano & Viola). Anna Picard wrote in THE INDEPENDENT: “The Smith Quartet and percussionist Jonny Axelsson impressed at the Wigmore Hall’s Kevin Volans Day”, in a chronicle over the concert year in London 2009. Paul Driver, The Sunday Times wrote: “A 1985 diptych for percussionist, She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket (a mistake; he means Akrodha from 1998!), was brilliantly dispatched by Jonny Axelsson”. In Telegraph, Ivan Hewett wrote:”…And in the end, it was the pieces that retained a human presence that gave the most pleasure: pieces such as the riveting percussion solo Asanga, played by Jonny Axelsson with a kind of calm fury…”. Andrew Clements in The Guardian wrote: ”Axelsson surveyed Volans’s three works for solo percussion, making light of their myriad rhythmic complexities, and the Smiths offered three of his 10 string quartets – including the work that established the composer internationally, White Man Sleeps.”
- The Axelsson & Nilsson Duo are doing the final work on a new CD in the beginning of 2010. The CD consists of music by Leilei Tian, Ivo Nilsson/Jonny Axelsson and Volker Staub. Except the duo, also the String Orchestra Musica Vitae plays on it. The CD will be released in September.
- In the period November 1 - 15 -2010, Jonny will be touring in Scotland. He will play “Akrodha” on seven concerts. The Dates and venues are not yet fixed. You can get further information on this website later on.
- Jonny has composed for string orchestra and solo percussion, with a dance performance by Danny Westlund, choreographed by Efva Lilja. The piece has the title Mass Manna and was commissioned by Musica Vitae. The Premiere took place in Växjö February 21, 2009, and was followed by a tour including performances in Gothenburg, Feb 24 and Malmö Feb 25.
- Another composition project is together with Thomas Bjelkeborn (electronic music). Together they will compose three new pieces to be premiered in 2010.
- Jonny and the pianist Stefan Lindgren were the soloists with The KammarensembleN in the Double Concerto by Unsuk Chin, at Konserthuset in Stockholm, Feb 1-09.
- Hanna Hartmann and Martijn Tellinga has composed solo pieces with electronics for J A. The pieces has been premiered. Concerts and recordings for CD are planned for 2010.
