Tebogo
Monnakgotla

Tebogo Monnakgotla grew up in Uppsala, where she began playing the cello at the age of ten. She went on to study cello and composition in Piteå and at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Her catalogue encompasses orchestral and chamber music as well as opera. Poetry is a recurring source of inspiration, including texts by Li Li, Oliveira Silveira and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.

Her work Bambu i björkars språk received a recommendation at the International Rostrum of Composers, and she subsequently became composer-in-residence at Swedish Radio. Her opera Jean-Joseph, written for the Royal Swedish Opera, was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2018. She has also worked with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vadstena Academy and Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre.