Hans Appelqvist is a composer and video artist. He started out releasing music in the early 2000s. His second full-length album won the Swedish Radio P3 Gold for best pop album, comparable to a grammy award. Since then he has continued releasing albums, all to critical acclaim.
About ten years ago, he branched out into composing music for film and stage productions. He has composed for shorts, documentaries and features that has been presented at Sundance, Cannes Film Festival and Berlinale. Recently he won the award for Best Music Score at the 2019 IDA Awards at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles for his orchestral score for the documentary feature The Raft.