The Swedish, German and English speaking Nils Urban Oestlund was born April 15, 1953 in Sundsvall Sweden. After graduating as a pianist, he studied musicology in Uppsala. In 1981 he won first prize in the Wilhelm Freund accompaniment competition (awarded by the Royal Academy of Music). Until 1982 he was a pianist and répétiteur in Uppsala and Stockholm (including chamber opera and folk opera). In October 1982 he started working as a répétiteur at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.In 2000 he received a prize in a composers’ competition in Vienna. Board member of the IGNM Salzburg since 2000.
