I am writing this blog, as I enjoy my first weekend home in six weeks, after a three-week tour in Japan, and a week at a chamber music festival on the East Coast. It’s been an eventful summer! Los Angeles Public Library’s “LA Made” series presented me in branches throughout the LA County in my […]
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This Sunday, May 12th at 4PM, I am playing selections from my program “Piano Waterscapes” on Santa Monica Second Sunday Concert Series, presented by the Silicon Beach Arts Council. This afternoon, I had a couple of hours at the venue, familiarizing myself with the piano and the acoustics. Each hall has its own unique acoustics.
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For the next several months, I will travel around the world to deliver my recital program “Piano Waterscapes,” featuring piano pieces with water imagery. Below are the chronological list of pieces I have for this program. When played in its entirety with my talks, it’s a bit longer than a normal two-hour recital program with
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For some reason, my springs tend to get packed with excitements. In 2017, I successfully defended my dissertation at the end of March, and started all the paper work necessary for graduation while recording my latest album, “100 Years: Early Beethoven and Late Brahms,” with clarinetist, Maiko Sasaki. While I kept my teaching and performances
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on April 4, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. “To listen is to expect to hear things.” I am quoting my teacher from a lesson when I was in high school. I have since pondered on it as
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