Zacharias Wolfe
— A composer and festival director of meeting points; between listener and player, individual and collective and between familiarity and strangeness.
Zacharias Wolfe is a Swedish-British composer, producer, and festival director constantly seeking new encounters—between art forms, people, and musical worlds. With roots in both classical and contemporary music, his music has been performed all over Europe with recent performances at venues such as Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik and the Swedish festival Svensk Musikvår. As the founder of Hjorted Art and Music Festival in rural Sweden, he builds platforms for interdisciplinary collaborations and residencies, and in June his new orchestral work “Held by Threads” will be premiered by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Common threads in both his instrumental, electronic and collaborative work is a focus on thresholds and meeting points, both in methods of composing and material. Thresholds between microtonal and tonal music, between listener and player, between individual and collective and between familiarity and strangeness. He is especially interested in exploring how we relate to each other through various levels of audience involvement in concerts, subverting pieces and styles within a shared musical heritage and by extension exploring questions around memory, nostalgia and deja vu.
Closely related to his interest in the interpersonal lies an interest in the organisation of spaces for people to come together. This led him to found the music festival and residency programme Hjorted Art and Music in 2023. At the heart of this organisation lies the desire to build connections between people and arts disciplines.
His music has appeared all over Europe in notable venues such as Royal Academy of Art in London (UK), Villa Carlotta in Como (Italy), Dartington Music Festival (UK), Mixtur Festival in Barcelona (Spain) and Kalv Contemporary Music Festival (Sweden). As a composer he has as worked with ensembles such as Apartment house, Quatuor Bozzini and KammarensembleN and through his Stockholm-based studio Studio Wolfe, with world leading brands such as Gucci, Moncler and Hypebeast. He regularly works with music for dance, film and other media and collaborative work is something that lies close to his heart.
Zacharias completed his Bachelor with Honours in composition and oboe under Haris Kittos and Olivier Stankiewicz at The Royal College of Music in London where he graduated with distinction. He later graduated from a masters in composition at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm where he studied with Per Mårtensson. In 2025 he received a scholarship from The Royal Academy of Music in Sweden.
