Professor Mika Pelo has been selected for a composer residency by the Peterson-Berger Foundation at Sommarhagen, the home of the late Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. Pelo will be in residence July 28 – Aug. 18.

As part of the residency, Pelo will compose a piece for Peterson-Berger’s grand piano and possibly more instruments. The piece is planned to be premiered in the summer of 2024 in connection with a public seminar on the Composer in society – yesterday-today-tomorrow. Pelo is the first composer to have a residency at Sommarhagen.

Sommarhagen was built in 1914 by the composer, critic and music writer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, who is remembered, among other things, for Frösöblomster with piano pieces such as Sommarsång, Vid Frösö kyrka and Intåg i Sommarhagen.

The composer’s home, which is now a museum, features influences from national romanticism and art nouveau and characterized by Peterson-Berger’s ideas in terms of design, interior design and coloring. It has been compared to “a timber-lined fortress with a summer-light interior” and was named in 2000 by the magazine Forum as one of Sweden’s best interiors of the 20th century.

The composer residency is carried out in collaboration with the Association of Swedish composers and with the support of Region Jämtland Härjedalen.