Mats Skimmelå - Pianist & Composer

A channel for the Swedish pianist and composer Mats Skimmelå. 
 
Mats was born in 1965 and grew up in Butorp, Deje in Sweden. He started playing piano but then switched to guitar where the discovery of playing chords was a milestone in Mats' musical life. He took up piano studies again at the age of 18 and studied music at 2 folk high schools before moving to Boston in the USA in 1991 to study at Berklee College of Music. He graduated there in 1994 and then moved back to Sweden and in 1995 he moved to Stockholm. There he worked as a freelance musician in many different projects until moving to Mariestad in 2017.