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Cecilia
Lofstrand
Cecilia
Lofstrand was born in 1973 in the north of
Sweden
and began to play the piano when she was four years old. From that time,
music and the piano became very important to her. At the age of 13 she
knew that she wanted to become a musician and her teachers Maria André-Frid
and Pera Szmukler helped her to achieve this ambition.
She made a recording for Swedish Radio in 1985 and two years later
she took part in The Young Pianists of the Future at
Karlstad
in
Sweden
. In 1988, she won third prize in The International Piano Competition of
Kil and in 1990 she was invited to take part in a concert
tour organised by the eminent concert pianist, Greta Eriksson.
Cecilia
studied with Prof Einar Steen-Nökleberg at the
Music
Academy
of
Oslo
in
Norway
from 1992 to 1994 and then spent four years at the "Hochschule
fuer Musik und Theater". During this time she won the Prize of
Culture in her hometown, Skövde. In 1999 she moved to Paris where she has
attended piano classes with Nelson Dellevigne-Fabbri, Gérard Frémy and
Guigla Katsarawa at the "Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris". In
Scandinavia
she has worked with Prof José Ribera and Prof Liisa Pohjola. She now
works as a soloist and a chamber musician.
She
plays regularly with orchestras in
Sweden
,
Greece
,
Italy
,
Finland
,
Germany
and
France
. Highlights include Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.1 under the direction
of Sir Neville Marriner with Sinfonia Finlandia, and Ravel's G Major Piano
Concerto with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sicilian Philarmonic
Orchestra in Palermo.
A
record of Philippe Gaubert's Sonatas for Flute and Piano will appear in
January 2008 with Patrick Gallois. Her next recording project is Francis
Poulenc's " Aubade" and "Double Concerto" for Piano
and Orchestra, with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
Patron
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Vice-Presidents
The Countess of
Leicester
, The Marquess of Cholmondeley,
Lord Simon of Highbury, Lord Broers
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