Society of Mirrors Teodor Wolgers

• 1 Searching the Obsidian Void 03:11
• 2 Broken Pieces 03:54
• 3 Boredom 02:38
• 4 Absent Minds 03:32
• 5 Reflective Artifacts 04:38
• 6 Leaving The Obsidian Void 03:09
• Total Runtime 21:02

Info for Society of Mirrors

Despite his young age, Teodor Wolgers is already a highly meritorious neo-classical composer. His instrumental and often melancholic piano music has already amassed 40 million streams on Spotify alone and his most recent collaboration release, a rework of Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini’s 'Illusion of Time' was chosen as Mary Ann Hobbs’ ”Hit Reset Track”, it has received a number of radio plays on BBC Radio 6 and was hailed as ”a cinematic and optimistic masterpiece” by Sian Eleri on BBC Radio 1.

In June 2021 Teodor is releasing 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 revolve 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’s 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 has also invited 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.

Apart from his solo career, Teodor is also a producer and a songwriter; most recently having worked with pop 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 music projects such as the pop duo Wilder Gray, the jazz quartet Monologue and the hip hop collective Adiafora. In 2019 he released his first trilogy of EP’s titled 'memories', 'sensations' and 'hopes', the latter widely exceeding his expectations reaching a stellar 15 million streams alone. Since then, he’s signed a record deal with [PIAS] who’s released his previous three EP’s 'notion', 'nocturnes' and 'narratives', inked a deal with booking giant Blixten and released a well-received rework of internationally famous producer and artist Kleerup’s 'Lovers Table' (ft. AlunaGeorge).

Teodor Wolgers

Teodor Wolgers
Swedish composer Teodor Wolgers began studying classical piano at the age of fourteen. Eight years later, his symphony orchestra work 'Dreams' was performed at the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. At the age of 22, Teodor became the youngest student at the Royal Academy of Music to achieve this. Despite his young age, Teodor is already a highly regarded neoclassical composer and pianist - his instrumental and often melancholic piano music has already been streamed over 50 million times and his reworking 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 EPs entitled 'memories', 'sensations' and 'hopes', the latter far exceeding his expectations and reaching 20 million streams alone. Since then, he signed a record deal with [PIAS], released his EPs 'notion', 'nocturnes' and 'narratives', signed a booking agent deal with All Things Live and released a well-received reworking 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 and the human condition under today's capitalism. In 2022, he released the EP 'Our True Nature' - a collection of works exploring the relationship between nature and man.

In addition to his solo career, Teodor is a producer and songwriter. Last year he released the soundtracks for two documentary films called 'Black Angels' and 'Longing for Áhkká'. Not even two months after the release, his track 'Arthur's Theme' had already reached 1 million streams. He has also composed songs with pop artists like Janice and Elias that have been featured in popular TV productions like 'Young Royals' and 'The Playlist' on Netflix.

His upcoming album 'Dialogues' is a collaborative album where Teodor invites some of the most interesting artists in the neoclassical scene, including Niklas Pashburg, Fejká, Midori Hirano and Abul Mogard. On his second album, Teodor explores his creative process by adding layers from other artists and art forms. The songs are all inspired by the artwork of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte.

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

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