Johan Söderqvist

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Johan Söderqvist
Born (1966-02-11) 11 February 1966 (age 58)
OccupationComposer
Years active1991–present

Johan Söderqvist (born 11 February 1966) is a Swedish film score composer. He has twice been nominated for the European Film Award for Best Composer for his film scores.

Personal life[edit]

Johan Söderqvist was born in Täby, outside Stockholm in Sweden, he attended the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, studying composition and arranging.

Career[edit]

Söderqvist was a keyboard player in many different jazz bands and folk music 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 Agnes Cecilia 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 Susanne Bier. Among those titles are the award-winning score for Brothers (2004),[1] After the Wedding (2006) and Things We Lost in the Fire (2007), where he collaborated with Academy Award-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla, and most recently the Best Foreign Language Oscar-winning In a Better World (2010). He composed an award-winning score for Tomas Alfredson's film Let the Right One In (2008)[2] and the music to the Oscar-nominated Norwegian film Kon-Tiki (2012).

In 2005 and 2009, Söderqvist was nominated as Best Composer by the European Film Academy for his Brothers (2004) and Let the Right One In (2008) scores. The Brothers score was also awarded Best Film Music at Cannes 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 Battlefield 1 and Battlefield V. He provided the score for the Norwegian film Amundsen, which was released in February 2019, and the US television miniseries Anatomy of a Scandal (2022).[3]

Discography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year Title Director Studio(s) Notes
1991 Agnes Cecilia – en sällsam historia Anders Grönros SVT Drama
1991 Freud's Leaving Home Susanne Bier Les Acacias Cinéaudience
1992 Brev til Jonas Susanne Bier Short film
1992 Stortjuvens pojke Henry Meyer Folkets Bio
1993 Family Matters Susanne Bier Svensk Filmindustri
1995 Like It Never Was Before Susanne Bier Svensk Filmindustri
1997 Beneath the Surface Daniel Fridell
1998 The Glassblower's Children Anders Grönros
2000 Swedish Beauty Daniel Fridell
2001 Family Secrets Kjell-Åke Andersson
2002 We Can Be Heroes! Ulf Malmros
2003 Misa mi Linus Torell
2003 At Point Blank Peter Lindmark
2004 Brothers Susanne Bier Nordisk Film
2005 Four Weeks in June Henry Meyer
2005 Bloodbrothers Daniel Fridell Public Art Entertainment AB
2006 After the Wedding Susanne Bier Nordisk Film
2006 Say That You Love Me Daniel Fridell Noble Entertainment
2006 Exit Peter Lindmark
2006 The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun Pernille Rose Grønkjær
2007 Walk the Talk Matthew Allen
2007 A Man Comes Home Thomas Vinterberg
2007 Things We Lost in the Fire Susanne Bier
2008 Let the Right One In Tomas Alfredson
2009 Love and Rage Morten Giese
2009 The Murder Farm Bettina Oberli
2010 Earth Made of Glass Deborah Scranton
2010 In a Better World Susanne Bier Nordisk Film
2010 Limbo Maria Sødahl
2010 King of Devil's Island Marius Holst
2011 El Medico: The Cubaton Story Daniel Fridell
2011 Love Addict Pernille Rose Grønkjær
2011 False Trail Kjell Sundvall Sonet Film AB
2011 The Road Yam Laranas GMA Films
2012 Seile sin egen sjø Synnøve Macody Lund
Carl Christian Raabe
2012 Kon-Tiki Joachim Rønning
Espen Sandberg
Nordisk Film
2012 Love Is All You Need Susanne Bier Nordisk Film
2012 Painless Juan Carlos Medina DistriB Films
2013 The Keeper of Lost Causes Mikkel Nørgaard Nordisk Film Composed with Patrik Andrén and Uno Helmersson
2013 Behind Bron/Broen Pelle Hybbinette
2014 A Second Chance Susanne Bier Nordisk Film
2014 The Absent One Mikkel Nørgaard Nordisk Film Composed with Patrik Andrén and Uno Helmersson
2014 Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama John Andreas Andersen
Lisa Marie Gamlem
2014 Serena Susanne Bier Magnolia Pictures
2016 The Limehouse Golem Juan Carlos Medina Lionsgate
2016 The King's Choice Erik Poppe Nordisk Film
2018 Per Fugelli: Siste resept Erik Poppe Nordisk Film
2018 The Quake John Andreas Andersen Nordisk Film Composed with Johannes Ringen
2018 Phoenix Camilla Strøm Henriksen
2018 The Congo Murders Marius Holst Nordisk Film
2019 Amundsen Espen Sandberg
2019 Held for Ransom Niels Arden Oplev
Anders W. Berthelsen
Nordisk Film
2019 The Last Vermeer Dan Friedkin TriStar Pictures
2020 Betrayed Eirik Svensson Samuel Goldwyn Films
2021 The Burning Sea John Andreas Andersen Just Entertainment
2021 The Emigrants Erik Poppe Film i Västerbotten
2023 The Liberation Anders Walter Nordisk Film
2024 Madame Web S. J. Clarkson Columbia Pictures

Television[edit]

Year Title Notes
1993 Morsarvet
1999 Kajsas ko
2000 En klass för sig
2003–2004 Hem till Midgård
2005 Lite som du
2011–2018 The Bridge
2016–2018 Spring Tide

Video games[edit]

Year Title Notes
2016 Battlefield 1 Composed with Patrik Andrén
2018 Battlefield V Composed with Patrik Andrén


References[edit]

  1. ^ Hernandez, Eugene (December 4, 2005). ""Cache" and "Sophie Scholl" Top European Film Awards". Indiewire. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  2. ^ Lagerström, Louise (2008). "Tomas — Den rätte" (PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish Film Institute. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
  3. ^ "Quelles musiques dans les films..." Cinezik (in French). Retrieved 12 March 2023.

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