Johan Söderqvist (born 11 February 1966) is a Swedish film score composer. He has twice been nominated for the

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for his film scores.

Personal life

Johan Söderqvist was born in

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, outside

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, he attended the

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, studying composition and arranging.

Career

Söderqvist was a keyboard player in many different

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bands and

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groups and has toured extensively around the world before concentrating his activities on composition for film, television, radio and theatre. He wrote his first film score for

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in 1991 and since then he has written numerous scores for film and television, including nine scores for films directed by the acclaimed Danish director

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. Among those titles are the award-winning score for ''

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'' (2004), '' After the Wedding'' (2006) and '' Things We Lost in the Fire'' (2007), where he collaborated with

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-winning composer

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, and most recently the Best Foreign Language Oscar-winning ''

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'' (2010). He composed an award-winning score for

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's film '' Let the Right One In'' (2008) and the music to the Oscar-nominated Norwegian film ''

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'' (2012). In 2005 and 2009, Söderqvist was nominated as Best Composer by the

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for his ''

'' (2004) and '' Let the Right One In'' (2008) scores. The ''

'' score was also awarded Best Film Music at

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as well as the 'Rencontres cinématographiques de Cannes' Award for Best Music in Film. Söderqvist was one of the main composers of 2016 video game ''

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'' and ''

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''. He provided the score for the Norwegian film ''

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'', which was released in February 2019, and the US television miniseries ''

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'' (2022).

References

External links

Official Johan Söderqvist website
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