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SESSION IX | Bridging: Equality

Tebogo Monnakgotla | Speaker

Composer

Sweden

Tebogo Monnakgotla has composed mostly for orchestra and chamber-ensemble. Amongst her cooperators are Swedish Radio Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm. Tebogo Monnakgotla has represented Sweden in Rostrum of Composers (European Broadcasting Unions competition for composers) and 2006 she won her work Bambu in björkars språk was selected as one of the recommended works. Tebogo Monnakgotla is especially fond of using poetry in her music and this has led to a longer co-operation with poet Li Li. Other poets she has worked with are amongst others, Brazilian poet Olievira Silveira and Swedish poets Elisabet Hermodsson and Ann Jäderlund.