With recent and upcoming premieres at NY Philharmonic's Nightcap series, Grant Park Festival in Chicago (Marina Piccinini and Andreas Haefliger), with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Radio Orchestra ( Johan Dalene), Chelsea Music Festival and a residence at Tanglewood Monnakgotla is an internationally acclaimed composer. 

At the she holds the position as Composer and Focus at Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.

 

Her Violin Concerto for young star-violinist Johan Dalene was praised in the international press and she has been called "one of the most prominent Swedish composers of her generation". Her career took off after she, still a student at the Royal College of Music, won Prize of recommendation in International Rostrum of Composers, the European broadcasting unions competition in contemporary music. Later that year she was selected the Swedish radios composer in residence, a position she held for two years.

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Tebogo Monnakgotla was born and raised in Uppsala. At the age of ten, Tebogo started to play the cello in the town music school. 1994 she started to study composing and cello-playing at Piteå college of music, in 1999 continuing her studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where she finished her postgraduate diploma studies in 2006.

 

Tebogo Monnakgotla has composed mostly for orchestra and chamber-ensemble but has lately been focusing on opera, with a recent piece - Jean-Joseph - for the Royal Opera in Stockholm and the opera Zebran coming up in Vadstena July 2021. Monnakgotla has recently composed a saxophone concerto for Johannes Thorell commissioned by four Swedish orchestras. It is streaming now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29pGug_hSAA

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Tebogo Monnakgotla is especially fond of using poetry in her music and this has led to a longer co-operation with poet Li Li. She also worked with poetry by, Oliveira Silveira, late Malagasies poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo and others.

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