Johan Sandback was born in Uppsala, Sweden where he started playing the piano at the age of six.
After graduating from the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm he studied with Prof. Aaron Shorr at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2002 he took his Postgraduate Diploma in solo performance and won the prestigous competition, Carpenter Piano Recital Prize at the Royal Academy.
Johan has taken part in masterclasses in Europe with Dimitri Bashkirov, Jiri Hlinka, Paul Roberts, Hans Leygraf and others. He has won first prize in several other competitions, including Ivar Rondin Competition and Pulcinella Piano Competition, and has received scholarship awards from the Academy of Music in Sweden.
As a performer he has, besides giving solo recitals, been specializing in the duo repertoire for piano and string instruments.
Johan is also a devoted piano teacher and is since 1999 a member of the board of EPTA Sweden.
In the year 2001 Johan founded the discussion forum pianoforum.net which later developed into the website pianostreet.com and the last couple of years he has mainly focused on managing and developing this well established Internet service for pianist, teachers and piano students.

Current work and projects

Piano Street (CEO)
Piano Visions (Producer)
GKiS (Producer)
EPTA Sweden (Treasurer)

Contact information

Email: johan.sandback@opus111.com
Phone: +4687200430
Mobile: +46707355777

 

Listen

W Stenhammar - Piano Concerto no 2 in d-minor 3rd movement
(Live with Uppsala Chamber Orchestra conducted by Paul Mägi)

Selected Repertoire - Solo Piano

Piano Concertos
W A Mozart	Piano Concerto no 20 in d-minor
J Haydn	Piano Concerto in D-major
L van Beethoven	Piano Concerto no 1 in C-major
E Grieg	Piano Concerto in a-minor
W Stenhammar	Piano Concerto no 2 in d-minor
Solo Pieces
J S Bach	French Suite in f#-minor
	Partita in Bb-major
W A Mozart	Fantasia in c-minor
	Sonata K 311 in D-major
	Sonata K 330 in C-major
	Sonata K 331 in A-Major
	Sonata K 457 in c-minor
L van Beethoven	Sonata op 13 c-minor ("Pathetique")
	Sonata op 31 no 2 in d-minor ("Ghost")
F Schubert	Four Impromptus op 142
F Chopin	Studies from op 10 and 25
	Scherzo no 1 in b-minor
	Selected Nocturnes and Mazurkas
R Schumann	Fantasiestük op 12
J Brahms	Sonata no 3 in f-minor
	Variations on a theme by Schumann, op 11
S Rachmaninov	Preludes (selection)
C Debussy	Preludes (selection)
A Schönberg	Sechs kleine Klavierstük op 19
S Prokofiev	Sonata no 2 in d-minor
D Schostakovich	Preludes and Fugues from op 87
G Ligeti	Studies from Book 1