Mikael is a composer who specialises in dramatic music for dance, ballet, opera, theatre and for singers, and writes concert music for orchestras, chamber ensembles and solo instrumentalists. His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Park Avenue Armory, Lincoln Center, MuTh Konzertsaal, MoMA, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Paris Opera Palais Garnier, Oslo Opera House, Berwaldhallen, the Royal Swedish Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, at the Nobel Prize Banquet, the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden and many other opera houses and concert venues across Europe and the US.

Since 2010, Mikael has written the music for most of choreographer Alexander Ekman’s ballets, dance works and installations. Their full evening pieces include Play, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Escapist, Hammer, A Swan Lake, Cow, Frailty of Man. Their shorter works include Tyll, Resin, Left Right Left Right, and Tuplet, All of their full evening pieces are frequently performed across the world and are regularly broadcast on major TV networks. Play will by the end of 2024 have been performed to more than 60 sold out houses at the Paris Opera.