Jordi Carrasco Hjelm is a versatile classical musician who takes inspiration from folk music, jazz and free improvisation. He is from Stockholm and has been a part of the O/Modernt concept from its very beginning, as a young participator in the first edition of the festival and later as a member of the O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra. Some of his favourite musical moments from 2018 include participating in the Oxford Chamber Music Festival, playing Mahler with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, improvising in a school in Mumbai while on tour with O/Modernt, and recording a new album with his own world music trio Garizim. Jordi has been awarded the Per Welin Stipend from the Swedish Royal Academy of Music, as well as grants from Stockholm Free Masons and the Lindeqvist Foundation, Byggnads Culture Grant, and more recently the Kempe-Carlgrenska Fonden Stipend. He studied for his BA in double bass at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Rick Stotijn and Olivier Thiery, and will complete his MA in improvisation with jazz violinist Tim Kliphuis in spring 2019.