Jacob Mühlrad

Jacob Benjamin Mühlrad (born April 9, 1991) is a Swedish composer. He has been named one of the most promising composers ^[1] in the world and has had his works played 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.^[2]

Biography

Mühlrad started with music when he was 15 years old and found an old broken synth and started to improvise with it.^[3] As a result of severe dyslexia he initially had big difficulties learning how to read and write sheet music. He has studied at 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 surviver 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 was intended to fund the production for a choir piece with the Radio Choir and Eva Dahlgren based on his grandfathers experiences.^[6]

Mühlrad is also a co-composer on rapper Silvana Imam's Swedish Grammy nominated album ”Naturkraft” (2016).^[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, Capella San Francisco, Tapiola Choir in Helsinki and the Swedish Radio Choir.^[8]

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