Ellen Nisbeth

Violist Ellen Nisbeth is a rising figure in the early 2020s decade who was performing important premieres of new music while still in her twenties. Nisbeth was heard on the 2014 album Invisible Cities by composer Britta Byström. That year, Nisbeth gave the world premiere of a concerto written for her by Byström. In 2017, Nisbeth signed with the BIS label and released her debut album there, Let Beauty Awake. In 2019, Nisbeth was heard on an album of piano quintets by Georgy Catoire and Ignaz Friedman. Nisbeth is the associate professor of music at the University of Stavanger in Norway. In 2022, she performed Allan Pettersson's posthumously released Viola Concerto on a recording of Pettersson's works by the Norrköping Symphony.