Pelle Olofson

Swedish conductor, singer, composer and music teacher, born 19 October 1961 in Farsta parish. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm in 1984, where he studied composition for Hans Eklund and Sven-David Sandström. Between 1984 and 2000, he worked mainly as a singer, in the Radio Choir, Eric Ericson's Chamber Choir and on most of the country's opera stages. Alongside singing, Pelle Olofson has composed choral music, film music, chamber music, electroacoustic music and orchestral music. In children's concerts, he has worked with both the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and has for these occasions both composed and arranged music. He has also written music for the Globe's Lucia Concert. Olofson was a music teacher at Adolf Fredrik's music classes between 2000 and 2017. In the music classes, he succeeded Christoffer Holgersson in 2009 as leader of Adolf Fredrik's boys' choir. Together with Fredrik Winberg, he started in the autumn of 2012, for the second time in the school's history, Adolf Fredrik's chamber choir, a mixed choir for high school students. Since the autumn of 2017, he has been employed as a church musician in Hägersten's parish in Stockholm, where he, among other things, started a boys' choir business. He started a chamber choir, the Little Choir in 2005, which for the most part consists of former students from Adolf Fredrik's music classes. Since January 2012, he has been the conductor of Stockholm's Student Singers and since September 2013 also of its newly formed sister choir, Stockholm's Akademiska Damkör. As conductor, Olofson has conducted in the Melodifestival final 2013, the Nobel Festival 2013, the Royal Opera the performance "The Golden Ship" 2013 (16 performances) and at the Folkoperan, in Carmina Burana also in 2013. He was chosen best conductor at the International Choir Festival in Florence 2013.