Jacob Mühlrad

Jacob Benjamin Mühlrad (born April 9, 1991) is a Swedish composer. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and National Portrait Gallery in London. Mühlrad is the youngest composer to have gotten a piece performed at The Royal Swedish Opera.[1]

Jacob Benjamin Mühlrad
Born1991 (age 29–30)
Stockholm, Sweden
EducationRoyal College of Music
OccupationComposer
WebsiteJacob Mühlrads website

Biography

Mühlrad started with music when he was 15 years old and found an old broken synth and started to improvise with it.[2] As a result of severe dyslexia he initially had difficulties learning how to read and write sheet music. He studied music under Sven-David Sandstrom[3] and then went on to the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and has a master's degree from the Royal College of Music in London.[4]

In 2016 Mühlrad made his Carnegie Hall debut with his work ”Pan”, inspired by the god in Greek mythology with the same name.[5] Mühlrad has produced work for Berwaldhallen, the Swedish Radio Choir, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

As the grandchild of a Holocaust survivor he was awarded a scholarship from Micael Bindefeld's Foundation in memory of the Holocaust ($33 000) on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2017. The scholarship funded the production for an a capella choir piece with the Radio Choir and Eva Dahlgren based on his grandfather, Michael Bliman's, experiences in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.[6]

Mühlrad is also a co-composer on rapper Silvana Imam's Swedish Grammy nominated album ”Naturkraft” (2016).[6]

In 2014 Mühlrad performed collaborative and experimental concert Through and Through, with Swedish contemporary artist Andreas Emenius, at R1 Reaktorhallen in Stockholm.[7]

In 2018, it was announced that Mühlrad was producing a piece that was joint-ordered by some of the world's most prominent choirs: the Radio Choir in Cologne, Cappella San Francisco, Tapiola Chamber Choir in Espoo, Finland and the Swedish Radio Choir.[8]

In 2019, it was confirmed that Mühlrad would be composing an orchestal interpretation of One (Your Name) by the Swedish House Mafia for the trio's comeback tour which is starting with three Stockholm shows in May.

References
  1. Nyheter, SVT (22 June 2015). "Han är Kungliga operans yngsta kompositör".
  2. "Jacob Mühlrad". CQP.
  3. Radio, Sveriges. "Jacob Mühlrads Kaddish med Radiokören och Eva Dahlgren - Klassiska konserten i P2". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  4. "Mühlrad, Jacob". Open graph site name &.
  5. https://www.thejc.com/news/world/musical-prodigy-writes-elegy-to-late-survivor-grandfather-1.432330
  6. TT. "Från Silvana Imam till Carnegie Hall - SvD".
  7. "Jacob Mühlrad komponerar spektakulärt kulturmöte i reaktorhallen". Mynewsdesk (in Swedish). Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  8. "Musikaliskt underbarn prisas av Anders Wall". 28 May 2018.


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