May 22, 2011
Johan Soderqvist has written numerous scores for film and television, including several scores for films directed by the acclaimed Danish director, Susanne Bier. Among those titles are the award-winning score for Brothers, After the Wedding, Things We Lost in the Fire, and more recently for In A Better World, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Johan was nominated as Best Composer by the European Film Academy for his Brothers score. Johan's work was also awarded the UCMF Award for Best Film Music in Cannes.
Johan also received numerous awards and acclaim for his score on the film, Let the Right One In, about Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.
Some of Johan’s other works include the tense drama, Troubled Water, Earth Made of Glass about the Rwandan genocide, and the Norwegian dramatic period piece, King of Devil's Island.