The Swedish artist Teodor Wolgers is known for his signature blend of neoclassical piano and electronic ambient. With two conceptual albums and several EP:s on his resumé, he continues to curiously investigate contemporary human behavior.  

 

He is now announcing the upcoming album Episod I Vikens kapell, due May 16th via [PIAS]. To connect with his grandfather Beppe Wolgers (beloved actor and poet) Teodor traveled to his favorite place and composed music inspired by his poetry. Recorded in one of the smallest chapels in Sweden the soundscape is a fine blend of Swedish folk, jazz and classical piano. The theme is deeply personal yet universal, exploring family bonds, relationships, and spirituality.

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Teodor started studying classical piano at the age of fourteen. Eight years later his symphony orchestra piece 'Dreams' was performed at Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. At the age of 22, Teodor became the youngest student at The Royal Academy of Music to accomplish that.  

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Despite his young age, Teodor Wolgers is already a highly meritorious neo-classical composer.

His instrumental and often melancholic piano music has already amassed over 50 million streams on Spotify alone, and his most recent rework of Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini’s 'Illusion of Time' was hailed as a ”Cinematic and optimistic masterpiece” by Sian Eleri on BBC Radio 1.

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In June 2021 Teodor released his debut album 'Distractions In A Capitalist World'; a highly ambitious concept album questioning the structures of, and the human condition under, modern day capitalism. The ideas revolving around how the ceaseless flood of distractions brought on by capitalism has the tendency to distract us from what’s really important in life. The music on the album offers a place to rest, and an opportunity to distract oneself away from capitalism’s unrealistic demands on self-realization.

To further illustrate this, he has turned to the Swedish Yale professor and academic superstar, Martin Hägglund, who’s doing a reading from his international best seller This Life on one of the album tracks. Teodor also invites the American poet, Rena Priest, who’s reading of her poem The Index serves as the album closer.
Released together with the album, is also a commentary track where Teodor reflects on the themes of the album, using metaphors from a late night walk in Stockholm to further explore the questions and thoughts that the album addresses. 

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Apart from his solo career, Teodor is also a producer and a song-writer; most recently having worked with artists such as Janice, lennix and Elias. In other words, there’s much more than just neo-classical composing on Teodor’s palette; he has written music for symphony orchestras, big bands and for his own pop project Wilder Gray, and been a backing musician for Duvchi and LÉON.

 

Swedish composer Teodor Wolgers started studying classical piano at the age of fourteen. Eight years later his symphony orchestra piece 'Dreams' was performed at Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. At the age of 22, Teodor became the youngest student at The Royal Academy of Music to accomplish that. Despite his young age, Teodor is already a highly meritorious neo-classical composer and pianist. His instrumental and often melancholic piano music has already amassed over 50 million streams on Spotify alone, and his rework of Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini’s 'Illusion of Time' was hailed as a ”Cinematic and optimistic masterpiece” by Sian Eleri on BBC Radio 1.

 

In 2019 Teodor released his first trilogy of EP’s titled 'memories', 'sensations' and 'hopes', the latter widely exceeding his expectations reaching a stellar 20 million streams alone. Since then, he’s signed a record deal with [PIAS] who’s released his EP's 'notion', 'nocturnes' and 'narratives', signed a booking agent deal with All Things Live and released a well-recieved rework of Kleerup’s 'Lovers Table' (ft. AlunaGeorge). In 2021 Teodor released his debut album 'Distractions In A Capitalist World'; a highly ambitious concept album questioning the structures of, and the human condition under, modern day capitalism. In 2022 he released the EP ‘Our True Nature’, a collection of works that explores the relationship between nature and the human.

 

Apart from his solo career, Teodor is a producer and a songwriter. Last year he released the soundtracks of two documentary films called ‘Black Angels’ and ‘Longing for Áhkká’. Not even two months after release, his track ‘Arthur’s Theme’ had already reached 1 million streams. He has also composed songs together with pop artists such as Janice and Elias, featured in popular TV productions such as ‘Young Royals’ and ‘The Playlist’ on Netflix.

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 Teodor Wolgers continues to prove himself as a multifaceted pianist, songwriter and composer. Free in his art, he investigates the contemporary with curiosity and courage.

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His debut album 'Distractions In A Capitalist World' was released on June 11th 2021 via [PIAS] Nordic.

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Teodor Wolgers är utbildad vid Kungl. Musikhögskolan och blev som tjugotvååring den

yngsta studenten någonsin att få ett verk framfört i Berwaldhallen (Dreams, 2016). 2019

släppte han en ep-trilogi där den avslutande delen, hopes, ensam har över tjugo miljoner

strömningar på Spotify. På albumen Distractions in a Capitalist World (2019) och Dialogues

(2023) samarbetade han med alltifrån den världsberömda filosofen Martin Hägglund till den

prisbelönta folkmusikern Sara Parkman.