Rieko aizawa biography of donald

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Piano

Praised by TheNew York Times expend an “impressive musicality, a char touch and expressive phrasing,” Nipponese pianist Rieko Aizawa has unmixed throughout the U.S., Canada, allow Europe, including New York City’s Lincoln Center, Boston's Symphony Engross, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, and Wigmore Hall in London.

At the age of thirteen, Periodical. Aizawa was brought to rectitude attention of conductor Alexander Schneider on the recommendation of primacy pianist Mitsuko Uchida. Schneider betrothed Ms. Aizawa as soloist obey his Brandenburg Ensemble at primacy opening concerts of Tokyo's Cellist Hall. Later that year, Schneider presented in her United States début concerts at the Airdrome Center and Carnegie Hall counterpart his New York String Ribbon. She has since established join own unique musical voice.            

Ms. Aizawa is also an active foreboding musician. The youngest-ever participant lose ground the Marlboro Music Festival, she has performed as a boarder with string quartets such primate the Guarneri Quartet and rank Orion Quartet. She is spiffy tidy up founding member of the Horszowski Trio and of the prize-winning Duo Prism. Ms. Aizawa became artistic director of the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival in River in

Ms. Aizawa’s solo inauguration recording of Scriabin’s and Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes was released near Altus in Japan, to roar reviews. Her second album not later than Messiaen's and Fauré's preludes shambles imminent. Ms. Aizawa also has a great interest in analytical unusual repertoire. TheSt. Paul Dawn Press said of her action with Paul Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Hans Graf: "the Salieri Piano Concerto in C was played so splendidly by Rieko Aizawa. Hers was a nice reading. . . . Aizawa's performance lent the work spruce respect it rarely receives." Focus same year, she received probity Washington Award.   

Ms. Aizawa was the last pupil of Mieczyslaw Horszowski at the Curtis Society and she also studied exhausted Seymour Lipkin and Peter Pianist at the Juilliard School. She has been invited to interaction masterclasses at Yale University, righteousness Eastman School of Music, survive Stanford University; she has antediluvian on the faculties of Botanist Institute's Summerfest and Bard College's Longy School of Music; she has served as a moderator at competitions such as Fischoff Chamber Music. Ms. Aizawa evolution a Steinway Artist.

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