2-490-597 - Svenskt Fotoreportages collection/Historisk Bildbyrå/Mustang media/Heritage Images

Staffan Scheja, Swedish pianist and professor, c1970s(?). After studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and then at the Juilliard School in New York, Scheja (1950-) received the highest prize in the Busoni International Competition in 1975. He has given concerts all over the world with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, David Zinman, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sixten Ehrling, Okko Kamu and with orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic, the French Radio Orchestra in Paris, the NHK in Tokyo, the English Chamber Orchestra and all the major Scandinavian orchestras. He lived and performed for many years in the US, playing in Carnegie hall and the Kennedy Center and at the White House, with Barbara Hendricks. He now lives in Stockholm, where he is a professor at the Royal College of Music. From the collection of Svenskt Fotoreportages.