Biography

Born in Halmstad in the south of Sweden, Mikael Carlsson is a prolific soundtrack album producer with over 500 album credits under his belt, as well as a film music concert producer, arranger and composer.

A former journalist who was a news editor at Metro and the chief correspondent for film music magazine Music from the Movies, Mikael launched film music company MovieScore Media in 2005, releasing its first soundtrack album in 2006. In 2011, an album Mikael produced, "The Shrine" (featuring music by Ryan Shore), was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. The label has been nominated for the "Film Music Record Label of the Year" award by the International Film Music Critics Association no less than ten times.

As a concert producer with arranging skills, Mikael launched Soundtracks Live!, a service devoted to bringing quality film music to concert halls all over the world, in 2014. Among other things, he was the symphonic concert producer for the International Film Music Festival, Cordoba, 2012-2014, and provided programming for orchestras in Canada, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Poland among other countries. As an arranger, Mikael specializes in adapting original film scores for concert use. Among the composers for whom Mikael have done arrangements are Marco Beltrami, Terence Blanchard and Patrick Doyle.

A composer in his own right, apart from a handful of television scoring credits (including the Scandinavian version of "Top Model"), Mikael devotes his time to writing concert music primarily for choir. Larger-scale works include a "Requiem" (2015), "The Christmas Gospel" (2018) and "Stabat Mater" (2020). Combing the worlds of choral music and film scoring, Mikael has also been hired to contract choirs for film work, including Zacarías M. de la Riva's "Automata" (2014) and Scott Glasgow's "The Curse of Sleeping Beauty" (2016).
- IMDb mini biography by: MovieScore Media