Works performed by Earplay:

Chains and Transparency
Abandoned

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 Professor of Composition at UC Davis. His principal composition teachers include Tristan Murail and Bent Sørensen. 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 wrote that Pelo's music "fashions a fascinating mosaic of sonorities," and the Irish Times described it as built by "gestures that were once the province of the avant-garde... here pliably exploited by a sensibility that sounded decidedly romantic." Pelo’s music is published by Edition Peters, Germany.