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I am Johan and I am classically trained singer, a life long multi-instrumentalist, a composer and sound designer.

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“It was such a pleasure to work with Johan, a talented composer that listens patiently, understands accurately, and works fast.”
— GU JIAN, Instabridge“Johan is an amazingly creative person. It’s been a pleasure to work with Sonic Gallery, and it will definitely be a long term relationship since we are keen to have a constant high quality in our productions.”
— DANIEL HASSELBERG, CEO Mag interactive“Excellent guy with awesome talent. Will hire again.”
— AJAY SINGH BISHT, Affiliate Via

“The fun and well designed sounds created by Sonic Gallery have contributed greatly to the tremendous success of Ruzzle and QuizCross. That is apparent in all the positive reviews we've gotten.“Anders Larsson, Producer MAG Interactive

“The soundtrack of Ruzzle Adventure is no doubt well done. It offers a lively little tune and very pleasant sound effects.”www.jeuxvideomobile.com

“We were also surprised by the sounds of the game, in fact, the soundtrack will provide an additional incentive to give a quick answer before the time comes to an end!”Tutto Android, Online Mag“This game features a rousing soundtrack that will stress you out in the final seconds of the allotted time. This is perfect way to make this game even more exciting.”www.jeuxvideomobile.com

About Me

(Some but not all of it)It was around mid april in Västerås, Sweden, I first saw the light of day. At the age of eight I got my first music education and started singing as a boy soprano in a choir. I also started playing the cello, the piano and the mandolin. I quickly took a liking to improvising and composing short pieces on the piano. Therefore, my father who is a violinist took me to a music teacher who taught me music theory, progressions and jazz improvisation.Later, in my teens, a few friends convinced me to start playing the electric bass in their rock band. From that day on I was hooked. Now, my entire life revolved around music. I later switched to the guitar and also started recording all kinds of songs on my Tascam Porta Studio. Boy, was that awesome. Producing music by overdubbing guitars, bass, synths and drums and then hear it all together from a 6-channel tape recorder. I’m pretty sure my songs were quite bad and unfortunately, or fortunately, the tapes got lost. But those recordings were the first steps toward what I do today.At that time I also started to sing much more and really wanted to become a pop/rock musician. In an attempt to improve my rock voice, I enrolled in the music program at Dalarö Fine Arts School outside of Stockholm but ended up singing much more classical music. I really enjoyed it and decided to become an opera singer instead. Studies at the Malmö Music Conservatory and Indiana University followed and fastforward to today, I am an operatic tenor who can’t give up on his childhood urge to compose and produce music in different genres.

In the 2021 HOFA Song Contest I was awarded a special jury prize for my submission “Fahrrad”.

“This award goes to Johan Weigel for his genre-breaking composition and great performance.”
— HOFA

In the 2020 HOFA Song contest I won the main prize in the category World & Miscellaneous with my submission “Eiskaffe”.

I won the second prize in the 2019 ELIAS GDC Contest.

“Great arrangement and perfect adaptivity.
Feels like a game soundtrack for real.
The adaptivity is subtle but well thought out.”
— JOHAN BERGQVIST, Eliassoftware

In the 2016 ELIAS Composer contest I was awarded first prize with my submission “March of the Redcaps”.

“Johan showed with his music that he not only has a deep understanding of how to make a great adaptive music score, but also that he has mastered the advanced features in ELIAS. The music would be perfect for the given game scenario, and with the tonal stingers and action presets we could really imagine how it would be like to play the game. Well done!”
— JOHAN BERGQVIST, Eliassoftware