Sunday 29 March 3.00 pm
Mayumi Sakamoto (piano)
Schumann–Liszt: 'Widmung' (5')
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite no 1 Op 46 (16')
- Morning Mood
- Åse's Death
- Anitra's Dance
- In the Hall of the Mountain King
Bach–Busoni: Chaconne (16')
Tchaikovsky/Pletnev/Sakamoto: The Nutcracker (20')
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Born in Japan, Mayumi Sakamoto made her orchestral debut with her hometown orchestra at the age of eleven. At eighteen, she became a semi-finalist at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. She graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, receiving the Douseikai Prize and the Yomiuri Prize in 2006. From 2005, she studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in Germany as a scholarship student of the Rohm Music Foundation. She obtained the K.A. degree (Diplom in Artistic Training in Music) in 2007 and completed the Soloist Diploma Course with the Orchestra Prize in 2013. She was later invited to give master classes at the same institution and worked as an instructor of chamber music as well as an assistant to Professor Einar Steen-Nøkleberg.
She won First Prize at the International Music Competition in Cologne in 2011, also receiving the Prize of the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln and the Special Prize from the Music Students. She also won First Prize and the Prix d'Oslo at the International Edvard Grieg Piano Competition in Norway, and the Highest Prize and Best Performance Prize for a work by Scarlatti at the Pausilypon International Piano Competition in Italy. She has received prizes at numerous international competitions, including the Top of the World International Piano Competition, the Andorra International Piano Competition, the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, and the Scottish International Piano Competition, and was a diploma recipient at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Deeply committed to education, she served as a lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts from 2016 to 2021. She is currently a lecturer at Kyoto City University of Arts and a visiting researcher at the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University. She has recorded Mozart's piano concertos with the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln and Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra. She has performed widely in Europe, the United States, and Japan, and her performances are praised for their bold yet delicate expression and rich tonal colors.
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