Jacob Benjamin Mühlrad (born 9 April 1991) is a Swedish composer. His works have been performed at

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in New York and

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in London. Mühlrad is the youngest composer to have gotten a piece performed at The Royal Swedish Opera.

Biography

Mühlrad started with music when he was 15 years old and found an old broken synth and started to improvise with it. As a result of severe

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he initially had difficulties learning how to read and write sheet music. He studied music under

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and then went on to the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and has a master's degree from the

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in London. In 2016 Mühlrad made his

debut with his work ”Pan”, inspired by the god in Greek mythology with the same name. Mühlrad has produced work for

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, the Swedish Radio Choir, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the

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. As the grandchild of a

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survivor he was awarded a scholarship from

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'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

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based on his grandfather, Michael Bliman's, experiences in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Mühlrad is also a co-composer on rapper Silvana Imam's Swedish Grammy nominated album ”Naturkraft” (2016). In 2014 Mühlrad performed collaborative and experimental concert ''Through and Through,'' with Swedish contemporary artist

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, at R1 Reaktorhallen in Stockholm. In 2018, it was announced that Mühlrad was producing a piece that was co-commissioned by several of Europe's most prominent choirs: the Radio Choir in Cologne, Cappella San Francisco,

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in Espoo, Finland and the

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. In 2019, it was confirmed that Mühlrad would be composing an orchestral interpretation of

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by the

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for the trio's comeback tour which is starting with three Stockholm shows in May. The piece, entitled "One Symphony", was released globally on January 1st 2022.

References

Living people 1991 births Swedish composers Swedish male composers 21st-century Swedish musicians 21st-century Swedish male musicians Royal College of Music, Stockholm alumni Alumni of the Royal College of Music 21st-century composers {{composer-stub