Cellist and composer Beata Söderberg was born March 27 1976 in
Linköping, Sweden. As a child she learned piano from her mother
and sang in a children's choir. At the age of eight she began to
play the cello, the instrument that would soon become her most
important means of expression and a constant companion in life.
During her school years Ms Söderberg divided her time between
music, acting, and her studies, but after high school she
decided to focus on music and attended the Royal College of
Music in Stockholm.
On receiving her Bachelor's degree in
1998 she moved to New York with a full scholarship to study at
the Manhattan School of Music where she received her Master of
Music degree in 2002. In New York she discovered Argentine tango
music and dance. Her passion for the genre resulted in various
collaborations with New York tango musicians, playing both
traditional tango, Astor Piazzolla and Tango Nuevo - the newest
form of the genre. She is also a talented tango dancer.
After finishing her studies, Ms Söderberg wanted to try
something she had not yet done: to write music. In her music for
quintet (cello, piano, bass, bandoneon and drums) she presents a
new tango sound, with the cello as the leading voice. The music
is passionate, energetic and dynamic. Her CD was recorded in the
legendary Estudios ION in Buenos Aires in June 2004 together
with some of the greatest tango musicians in the world: Walter
Ríos (bandoneon), Juan Esteban Cuacci (piano), Roberto Tormo
(bass) and José Luis Colzani (percussion).
The CD
received outstanding reviews from all major magazines and radio
stations in the country, and in April 2005 the album was
nominated for the Argentinean equivalent of the Grammy Awards in
the category "Mejor Album/Artista-Tango Nuevas Formas" at the "Premios
Carlos Gardel". Beata has performed in Argentina in legendary
theaters such as La Trastienda, Luna Park, Torquato Tasso, La Opera and Notorious.
Beata has released four more albums with her band
JusTango:
Christian Zárate
(piano), Roberto Tormo (bass),
Horacio Romo (bandoneon)
José Luis Colzani (percussion). The album "BeSo" was
released in Argentina in April 2006, "Bailata" in 2007 and the latest
albums "Beatas Aires" and "Tangos románticos para bailar" in 2010.
The two new albums released on the record label Aqcua will be presented
in Argentina in October and November 2010.