Jacob Mühlrad

Composer Jacob Mühlrad has seen his works performed in many countries by leading orchestras and choirs. He has also collaborated with pop musicians. Mühlrad was born on April 9, 1991, in Stockholm. He is of Jewish background, with three of his grandparents having survived the Holocaust, and several of his works explore Jewish themes. Mühlrad became interested in music at age 15 when he found a broken synthesizer and began experimenting with it. Due to autism, he had trouble learning to read and write music, but he persisted and began studying with Sven-David Sandström. Mühlra...