Mika Pelo

Mika Pelo

Swedish composer Mika Pelo writes music for soloists, chamber ensembles, and orchestras, with or without electronics. He holds a doctorate in composition from Columbia University and is currently associate professor of composition at UC Davis. His principal composition teachers include Tristan Murail and Bent Sorensen.Pelo is inspired by the French so-called spectral composers and Scandinavian lyricism and describes his method of composition as "controlled dreaming." The Strad magazine thinks that Pelo's music "fashions a fascinating mosaic of sonorities," and the Irish Times writes that Pelo's music is built by "gestures that were once the province of the avant-garde ... here pliably exploited by a sensibility that sounded decidedly romantic." His music is published by Edition Peters, Germany.Bio courtesy of UC Davis.

Dissertation
An analysis of the third movement of Gyorgy Kurtag's "Stele"
Columbia Degrees: 
DMA, Composition
2009