Johan在瑞典皇家音樂學院專攻作曲與編曲課程，畢業后在爵士與民謠樂團擔任鍵盤手，在經歷長久的樂團巡回旅程后，決定專心投入電影、電視、電臺與劇場音樂創作。1991年交出首部電影音樂作品《Agnes Cecilia》，此部作品為他贏得瑞典音樂獎的肯定，隨后他以《Freud's Leaving Home》與導演蘇珊娜畢葉爾結緣，雙方建立深厚的影音情誼，《婚禮之后》是雙方第6度的合作，Johan上回幫蘇珊娜執導作品《變奏曲》所譜寫的音樂，曾經贏得2006年坎城影展最佳電影音樂獎，同時也入圍了2005年歐洲電影獎最佳歐洲電影音樂獎項目。 Born in 1966 in Täby outside of Stockholm in Sweden, Johan Söderqvist attended the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, studying composition and arranging. A versatile musician who has been a keyboard player in many different jazz bands and folk music groups, Johan has toured extensively around the world before concentrating his activities on composition for film, television,radio and theatre. He wrote his first film score in 1991, Agnes Cecilia, and since then he has written numerous scores for film and television, including seven scores for films directed by the acclaimed Danish director, Susanne Bier. Among those titles are the award-winning score for Brothers, After the Wedding and, most recently, Things We Lost in the Fire, where he collaborated with Academy Award-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla. In 2005, Johan Söderqvist was nominated as Best Composer by the European Film Academy for his Brothers score. This work was also awarded the UCMF Award for Best Film Music in Cannes as well as the ’Rencontres cinématographiques de Cannes’ Award for Best Music in Film.