Elsa Nilsson & Rachel Therrien

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 Liminal (2026), 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.

Three-time GRAMMY-nominated trumpeter, composer, producer, and bandleader Rachel Therrien is celebrated for her emotionally powerful sound, fearless improvisation, and genre-expanding artistic vision. Based between New York City, Montreal, and Havana, she merges contemporary jazz with Afro-diasporic traditions, weaving Afro-Caribbean and Latin American rhythmic forms into a bold modern voice. Winner of the TD Grand Prize Jazz Award and the Stingray Rising Star Award, Therrien is also a multiple JUNO and ADISQ nominee. She leads the acclaimed Latin Jazz Project (Mi Hogar II) and the duo Dialogue with pianist Albert Marqués (Chronograph Records), and has performed worldwide at star venues like Blue Note NYC, SFJAZZ, and the Lincoln Center Summer for The City.

Musicians:
Elsa Nilsson – Flute
Rachel Therrien – Trumpet
Morgan Moore – Bass
Kuluse Souriant – Drums
Andres Vial – Piano

Video: “Mourning For Two”