Early on, his passion for contemporary music led him to the Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt, and subsequently, from 2011 onwards, to the Cologne University of Music for two years. There, Jonas Olsson found the ideal mentor in Pierre-Laurent Aimard to further specialize in his favorite field. Even before that, he had received important artistic impulses through repeated collaboration with Pierre Boulez, whom he encountered multiple times as a member of the Lucerne Festival Academy between 2006 and 2009.

In addition to the piano music of this pioneering figure of the French avant-garde, Olsson is deeply engaged with other “classics” of this era, such as the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luigi Nono, Iannis Xenakis, Brian Ferneyhough, and Salvatore Sciarrino – and, of course, Olivier Messiaen, a central figure in the musical evolution of the 20th century. For Jonas Olsson, it is a great honor that his former teacher from Cologne, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, has chosen him to participate in this unique project.