Francisca Skoogh

• Pianist

About

Francisca Skoogh made her debut at the age of 13th with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and has since then established herself as one of Sweden´s foremost concert pianists. She made her studies with teachers like Romuald Sztern, Pascal Devoyon, Bohumila Jedlickova, Hans Pålsson and Dominique Merlet. She was the recipient of the prestigious ”Premier Prix” in both chamber music and piano at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris and the Soloist Diploma at The Royal Danish Music Conservatoire. Francisca has taken part in national and international competitions with great success and her main break-through took place when she was awarded the soloist prize in Stockholm 1998 which gave her a CD recording and a concert tour as prize. In 2000 she got 2nd prize of the Michelangeli Competition in Italy and several concert bookings in Italy followed on that.