Pelle Olofson is a versatile composer and arranger, choir director and singer who studied with Sven-David Sandström and wrote a large number of beloved choral works for his students at Adolf Fredrik's Music Classes.
Per Lars Olof Olofson was born in 1961 in Farsta outside Stockholm. After studying, among other things, composition for Sven-David Sandström at the Academy of Music in Stockholm, he worked for many years as a professional choir singer in, among other things, the Radio Choir and Eric Ericson's Chamber Choir. He has extensive experience as a choir director and teacher at Adolf Fredrik's Music Classes, where he himself was a student as a child and where his mentor Jan Åke Hillerud already encouraged him to develop his interest in composition and arranging. The result was a large number of works specifically for children and young people, not least Tindra, which is sung during Advent and Christmas in both Sweden and abroad.
In addition to his choral works, Pelle Olofson has composed orchestral music, instrumental music, electroacoustic music, musicals, piano and organ music. A saxophone quartet, composed when he was fifteen, is available on CD and on spotify, played by Stockholm's Saxophone Quartet. He has arranged music for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Melodifestivalen, Globen's Lucia concert and Stefan Nilsson's beloved melodies such as 2018's hugely popular Wish You a Good New Year.
Pelle Olofson works as a church musician in Hägersten's parish in Stockholm and leads Stockholm's Student Singers and its sister choir Stockholm's Academic Women's Choir.
