Prof. Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist is professor and head of the Piano Department at the Ingesund College of Music at Karlstad University. She is the Artistic Director of Glafsfjordens Music Festival, President of Ingesund Piano Foundation, Artistic Director of the Nordic Piano Competition and founder and director of Nordic Junior Piano Competition. In the past few academic years Prof. Jula Mustonen-Dahlkvist has given masterclasses in top institutions of Hong Kong, Latvia, Germany and South Korea among other countries. Julia is a concert pianist from a diverse background. Born in a Finnish-Russian family, she started to play the piano at the age of three under the guidance of her mother, Lidia Mustonen. She studied in Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin, Royal Academy in Dublin as well as Stockholm College of Music and Marshall Academy in Barcelona. Her most important teachers include Vitali Berzon, Erik T. Tawaststjerna, John O’Conor, Dominique Merlet and Alicia de Larrocha.
