Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson

Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson is a composer and trumpet player. He studied at Indiana University, Bloomington, with John Eaton and Iannis Xenakis, and at the Berkshire (now Tanglewood) Music Center, Lenox, Massachusetts, with Gunther Schuller and Jacob Druckman. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the inaugural John W. Work III Composer’s Fellowship. His commissions include works for the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet, the Dale Warland Singers, José Limón Dance Company, Studio Dan, Grow Quartett, and the Broken Frames Syndicate. Recent works have premiered at Lucerne Festival Forward, Luzern Summer Festival, Wien Modern, Rainy Days Festival. Nelson lives and works in Biel, Switzerland.