Tomomi Okumura Piano Recital - Beethoven's three major sonatas "Pathetique", "Moonlight" and "Passion"

Program

Lv Beethoven
Lv Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor, op.13 "Pathétique"
Klaviersonate Nr. 8 c-Moll "Grande Sonate pathtique"

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, op.27-2 "Moonlight"
Klaviersonate Nr. 14 op. 27 Nr. 2 cis-moll "Quasi una Fantasia"

Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, op.57 "Passion"
Klaviersonate Nr.23 f-Moll "Appassionata" op.57

Profile

Born in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Started playing the piano at the age of 4 and won the 46th All Japan Student Music Competition National Tournament Middle School Division 1st Place and the Nomura Prize. After attending Tokyo University of the Arts High School of Music, he graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Music Department with the Doseikai Award and the Yomiuri Newcomer Award. While in college, at the tender age of 19, he won the 1st prize at the Paderewski International Piano Competition (Poland). In 2001, he moved to Germany and studied at the Hans Eisler University of Music and Performing Arts Berlin as a scholarship student of the Rohm Music Foundation.
2005 Cologne International Piano Competition 3rd prize. In 2006, he won the 3rd prize at the Geza Anda International Piano Competition (Switzerland), signed a three-year concert contract, and performed recitals and orchestral concerts at 15 locations, mainly in Europe. His performance has been described as "a sonic picture drawn from a palette of sophisticated and colorful tones". In addition, the recording of Horntrio is performed by the contract with the German central broadcasting station.
In 2008, he graduated from the Hanns Eisler Graduate School of Music at Berlin University of Music with the highest grades and obtained the German National Performer Qualification. In the same year, the concerto tour in five cities in Germany and the Czech Republic was also well received.
Geidai Philharmonia, Hamamatsu Citizen Orchestra, Hamamatsu Philharmonic Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, Brandenburg Orchestra, West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Winterthur Chamber Orchestra, Czech National Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra He has performed with orchestras in Japan and abroad.
In addition to appearing at NHK-FM "Recital of Masterpieces", the 30th Yokohama City International Invitational Piano Concert, and music festivals throughout Europe, he has performed in Germany, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Kuwait, Brazil, and elsewhere in Japan and overseas. Active in the fields of solo and chamber music.
She has studied under Noriko Abe, the late Kazuhiko Nakajima, Kimiko Kurasawa, Sumiko Mikimoto, Emiko Harimoto, and Georg Sava.
Currently a part-time lecturer at Kunitachi College of Music and Aichi University of the Arts.

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