Mika Pelo is a Swedish composer, currently living and working in New York City where he is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University under the supervision of Tristan Murail. Before coming to the US, Mika studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden for teachers Pär Lindgren, Sven-David Sandström and Bent Sørensen. Mika has also attended master classes with Magnus Lindberg and Peter Eötvös. He has also studied computer music and composition at IRCAM in Paris.