Anna Bergström-Simonsson

Anna Katarina Bergström-Simonsson (30 December 1853 – 30 January 1937) was a Swedish voice teacher who first taught in Swedish girls' schools and later at the Royal Seminary for Women in Stockholm. From 1903 to 1920, she was engaged by the Royal Conservatory, becoming a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1912. In 1914, she was awarded the Litteris et Artibus for her services to Swedish culture.

Biography Born on 30 December 1853 in Färnebo near Filipstad, Värmland, Anna Katarina Bergström was the daughter of the miner Olof Larsson Bergström and his wife Brita Cajsa née Nilsson. She was one of the family's 11 children. From 1873 to 1876 she studied at the Royal Conservatory in Stockholm, graduating as an organist. In 1916 she married Jonas Didrik Simonsson, the director of the Gothenburg-Stockholm-Dalarna transport authority. She became a member of Nya Idun, a Swedish women's association, in 1899.

Anna Bergström-Simonsson died in Stockholm on 30 January 1937.

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