Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre

Date: Wed. 15. June 2016, 14:00 (13:20)

Hall: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre

Artists

ONO Kazushi, Conductor

KOYAMA Michie, Piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aifW-PZZKPo   

Program

Mozart: Overture to “Die Entführung aus dem Serail”, K.384

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No.5 in F major, op.103, “Egyptian”

Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, op.35

小山実稚恵 Michie Koyama Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbC-b5wfWUU

Michie Koyama

http://en.chopin.nifc.pl/chopin/persons/detail/id/2887

*3 V 1959 Iwate

Michie Koyama – 4th Prize winner, 11th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (1985). Michie Koyama started learning piano playing at the age of five. She completed musical high school at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, moving on to college level at the same University.

Ms. Koyama participated in international music competitions in Tokyo (reached semi-final stage, 1980), Moscow (Tchaikovsky Competition, 3rd Prize, 1982) and Warsaw (Chopin Competition, 4th Prize, 1985).

In 1991, she made her London debut at the Royal Festival Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. She toured in Europe and the US. She has performed with top orchestras such as the Warsaw Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Berlin Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Moscow Radio Orchestra, The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, English Chamber Orchestra and several orchestras in Japan. She has worked with such conductors as James Conlon, Otmar Suitner, Horst Stein, Neville Marriner, Claus Peter Flor, Seiji Ozawa, Andrew Davis, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Kazimierz Kord and others.

Ms. Koyama repertoire includes over 60 piano concertos and many solo works ranging from Baroque to contemporary. She also appears in chamber ensembles, notably with violinist Augustin Dumay and pianist Maria João Pires.

She performs at major music festivals. In 1999, she appeared at the International Chopin Festival in Duszniki, playing Mozart, Bach, Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Chopin.

Ms. Koyama has made 25 recordings for Sony, including works by Chopin (Sonata in B minor, Mazurkas, Polonaises, Ballades, Scherzos etc.), Schumann (Carnival, Kreisleriana etc.), Liszt (Mephisto Waltz, En rêve, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Campanella, Feux follets etc.), Rachmaninov (Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini etc.).

She has sat on the jury of the 16th International Fryderyka Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.

Stanisław Dybowski

Sat. June 18, 2016 15:00