Staffan Scheja

Bo Staffan Scheja born 25 April 1950 is a Swedish pianist and professor Scheja started studying piano at the age of nine and made his concert debut at the age of 14 with the Sveriges Radios symfoniorkester He also performed with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra He studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm 19641969 and 19691972 at the Juilliard School in New York with pianists Rosina Lhévinne Ilona Kabos and Ania Dorfmann In 1975 he was the awardee at the international Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano For a number of years he lived in the US and performed in concerts at Carnegie Hall and at several head of state visits by Swedish dignitaries to the US He is a professor of piano and also prorector at the Royal College of Music since 1997 and has held a chair at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music since 2001 He founded and was artistic director for the Gotland Chamber Music Festival held annually at Gotland since the 1980s He is also the director of the Gotland Baltic Music Academy In 2010 Scheja performed at the Pianomusik på Konstakademien a special session at the Konstakademien in Stockholm In 1995 he was awarded the Litteris et Artibus and he has received several Swedish Grammis awards In 2008 he was a participant in the Sveriges Television 2009 series Stjärnorna på slottet along with four other Swedish celebrities In the series he had a wellpublicized feud with comedian Jonas Gardell when Scheja tried to teach Gardell how to play the violin In August 2010 he was presenter of an episode of the Sveriges Radio series Sommar i P1 Staffan Scheja is the father of Swedish DJ Rebecca Scheja Source Article Staffan Scheja from Wikipedia in english licensed under CCBYSA