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Place of Birth: Danderyd Municipality, Sweden
About 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 1964–1969 and 1969–1972 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 well-publicized 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.
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