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Tebogo Monnakgotla Örebro University

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Composer and teacher Tebogo Monnakgotla presents her work with three solo concertos centred on environmental themes, with particular attention to a violin concerto derived from a scientific article documenting a dragonfly crossing the Pacific Ocean.

In addition, she will talk about two operas: Jean-Joseph, based on the life of the Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, who – due to colonial restrictions – was forbidden to visit his beloved Paris; and Zebran, which tells the story of two men fleeing a country where their relationship is forbidden, and the challenges they encounter upon arriving in the supposedly liberal Sweden.

Biography
With recent and upcoming premieres with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic’s Nightcap series, the Grant Park Festival in Chicago (with Marina Piccinini and Andreas Haefliger), the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (with Johan Dalene), the Chelsea Music Festival, as well as a residency at Tanglewood, Monnakgotla is an internationally acclaimed composer.

Currently Composer-in-Residence with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, her Violin Concerto written for the young star violinist Johan Dalene has been praised in the international press. She has been described as ‘one of the most prominent Swedish composers of her generation’. Her career took off while she was still a student at the Royal College of Music, when she was awarded the Prize of Recommendation at the International Rostrum of Composers – the European Broadcasting Union’s competition for contemporary music. Later that year she was appointed Composer-in-Residence at Swedish Radio, a position she held for two years. In addition to working as a freelance composer, she is Senior Lecturer in Composition at Örebro University.

Tebogo Monnakgotla was born and raised in Uppsala. At the age of ten she began playing the cello at the local music school. In 1994 she started studying composition and cello at the Piteå School of Music, and in 1999 she continued her studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, completing her postgraduate diploma in 2006.

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This event will end at approximately 5.30pm.