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.
Johan Söderqvist | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 February 1966 |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Years active | 1991–present |
Personal life
editJohan Söderqvist was born in Täby, outside Stockholm in Sweden, he attended the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, studying composition and arranging.
Career
editSöderqvist 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
editFilm
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 | — |
| 2022 | Anatomy of a Scandal | — |
| 2024 | Ronja, the Robber's Daughter | — |
Video games
edit| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Battlefield 1 | Composed with Patrik Andrén |
| 2018 | Battlefield V | Composed with Patrik Andrén |
References
edit- ^ Hernandez, Eugene (December 4, 2005). ""Cache" and "Sophie Scholl" Top European Film Awards". Indiewire. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Quelles musiques dans les films..." Cinezik (in French). Retrieved 12 March 2023.
