Elsa Nilsson and Band of Pulses

Brooklyn-based flutist and composer Elsa Nilsson’s work engages high-level improvising and layered, cinematic orchestration; her artistry, an earnest and actionable desire to collaborate with multimodal artists and the changing world around her. The Gothenburg native’s solo leader releases include include Atlas Of Sound - Quila Quina (2024), Pulses (2023), Atlas Of Sound - Coast Redwoods (2022), Dark Is Light Is (2021), Hindsight (2020), After Us (2018) and Salt Wind (2017). She’s named Flutist Of The Year in the Downbeat 2025 poll, is the 2018 winner of the National Flute Association’s Jazz Flute Competition, and the recipient of multiple Chamber Music America grants, including a 2022 New Jazz Works grant for Band of Pulses. Elsa graduated from Hvitfeldtska gymnasiet in Gothenburg; she received her bachelor of music from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and her master of music from NYU. She has served as a professor of Rhythmic Analysis and Socially Engaged Artistry at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music since 2020, and led master classes across the U.S.

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