Mika Pelo
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Mika Pelo is a doctoral candidate in composition at Columbia University under the supervision of Tristan Murail. Before coming to the United States, Pelo studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden for teachers Pär Lindgren, Sven-David Sandström and Bent Sørensen. Pelo has also attended master classes with Magnus Lindberg and Peter Eötvös. He has also studied computer music and composition at IRCAM in Paris. His breakthrough came in 2000 with the nomination of his string orchestra piece Apparition to the Gaudeamus prize in Holland. In 2003 Pelo graduated in Stockholm with his Violin Concerto, performed by young soloist Cecilia Zilliacus and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Pelo has received awards from the Royal Academy of Music in Sweden and Thord Gray Memorial Award from the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Pelo has mostly written instrumental chamber music and music for orchestra but is also fluent in the electronic music language and occasionally uses live electronics and writes electro-acoustic music. Ensembles that have commissioned or performed music by Pelo include: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, North Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra, Flux Quartet (New York), The Swedish Concert Institute, Cecilia Zilliacus, Bengt Forsberg, Earplay, Red Light New Music (New York), The Barbad Chamber Orchestra (New York), Mika Takehara, Nya Stenhammarkvartetten, Musica Vitae, KammarensembleN, The Pearls Before Swine Experience, and the HUGO string quartet (Iceland). |