Yukio Yokoyama is a Japanese pianist, born in Tokyo in 1971. He went to study at the Paris Music Conservatoire Collegium with a scholarship from the French Government in 1987. There, he studied under Jacques Rouvier, Vlado Perlmuter and others. In 1989, he won prizes at the Busconi International Concours and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Concours.
In 1990, at the age of 19, he graduated from the Paris Conservatoire with grants of Premier Prix in piano and chamber music and the same year won third prize from the Chopin International Piano Competition and also the Sonata prize.
With this success, Yokoyama then officially began his concert activities, including recitals and performances with orchestras in cities all around the world, in addition to chamber music and radio broadcast performances.
In 2001, he made his successful recital debut as well as concerto debut in St. Petersburg with the St. Petersburg Philharmony under Nikolai Alexeev. During the years of 2005 - 2006, Yokoyama performed together with Berlin Symphony Orchestra “Emperor Concerto” under the baton of Eliahu Inbal.
And in 2011, Yokoyama performed 212 Chopin solo works, including previously unpublished pieces, in a single concert, thus breaking his own Guinness World Record.
Born in Tokyo in 1998, Mao Fujita began studying the piano at the age of three.
In 2017, while still a freshman at the Tokyo College of Music, Mao won the 27th Concours International De Piano Clara Haskil in Switzerland, also winning three special awards the “Audience Award,” the “Prix Modern Times,” and the “Prix Coup de Coeur.” This achievement earned him international attention.
Mao has won numerous awards inside and outside Japan. In 2010, he received 1st Prize in the Junior Section of “The World Classic” (Taiwan) and 1st Prize in the elementary school division of the national competition of the Student Music Concours of Japan. He also won 1st Prize at the International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition in Austria in 2013, 1st Prize at the Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians in 2015, 1st Prize at the Hamamatsu International Piano Academy Competition, and 3rd Prize at the Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition in the United States in 2016.
In 2013, Mao gave his solo debut recital at Tsuda Hall. Since then he has been invited to perform recitals both in Japan and in international festivals including the Chopin Summer Festival in Poland, the World Festival in Assisi, Italy, and the Festival Next Generation in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland.
He has performed with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Macao Orchestra and others, under the batons of Shigeo Genda, Norichika Iimori, Naoto Otomo, Rei Hotoda, Christian Zacharias, and Lu Jia.
In 2013, Mao released his first album, Mao Fujita (NYCC-10001) which was the first CD release on “Naxos Cresciendo,” Naxos Japan’s new label for young musicians. His second album, Young Virtuoso, (NYCC-27296) was released in 2015, winning high acclaim.
Mao Fujita is freshman studying as a special scholarship student in the Piano Performance for Talented Student Division at the Tokyo College of Music. He studies piano with Professor Minoru Nojima, Professor Kazuko Sumi and Mr. Hiroo Sato, and solfeggio with Mr. Yo Nishio.
He is a 2017 scholarship student of the Aoyama Foundation.
Kanon Matsuda was born in the city of Takamatsu, Japan.
She started her training at 4 years of age with Professor Yoshiko Hosoda. Beginning in 2002, Kanon was a student of the Gnessin Secondary Special Music School (college), in the class of Professor Elena Ivanova.
In March of 2004, Kanon was awarded the Grand Prix at the International Piano Competition in memory of Grieg in Moscow.
In November of 2006, she was the winner and recipient of the Golden Nutcracker in the 7th International Television Competition for Young Musicians “The Nutcracker” in Moscow. In January of 2007, she appeared before the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexey II at the children's Christmas party which was organized in the patriarchal residence in the Danilov Monastery.
In April 2009, Kanon received the first prize and gold medal at the AADGT International Young Musicians Competition “Passion of Music” in New York. In November of 2010, she was awarded the Grand Prix at the International Competition "Classic-2010" in Aktobe.
In 2011, Kanon Matsuda won the Scriabin Scholarship "Path to Scriabin."
In March of 2012, she won the Romantic Music Festival of young musicians in Moscow. In February of 2013 she was awarded the title "Best Student of 2012 Gnessin Special Music School."
On the 29th of April 2013, Kanon performed a concert in honor of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Moscow. In September of 2013 she received a grant for the training program "New Talents" from the Ministry of Culture of the Japanese Government. In June of 2014 Kanon graduated from the Gnessin Secondary Special Music School, receiving the “Red Diploma” awarded to students with outstanding academic achievements; and in August of 2014 she entered the Moscow State Conservatory on a scholarship from the Russian government. She studies in the class of Professor Mikhail Voskresensky.
In November of 2014, Kanon released in her first disc in Japan, on the label Deutsche Grammophon. Her second album “Pictures at an Exhibition” was released in June of 2017.
Kanon has an intensive musical life. She performs in the best halls of Moscow: the Great, Small, and Rachmaninov Halls of the Moscow State Conservatory, the Svetlanov and Chamber Halls of the Moscow International House of Music, and the Concert Hall of Tchaikovsky.
Kanon gave her debut performance in an orchestra concert at the age of eight. She has performed with such conductors as Mark Gorenstein, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Masahiko Enkoji, Tadaaki Otaka and Ken Takaseki, and with numerous orchestras including the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the National Philharmonic of Ukraine (Kiev), the Sapporo Symphony, Tokyo Symphony and Hiroshima Symphony. In 2012, Kanon gave a successful performance in Japan with the Russian National Orchestra under M. Pletnev on the orchestra’s Asian tour; and took part in the largest festival of the Russian National Orchestra in Moscow, as well as in concerts of the Philharmonic Seasons (Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk).
Yoko Kikuchi (born September 1, 1981), aka Yoko Oji Kikuchi or Yoko OK, is a fourth-generation American artist, singer/songwriter and filmmaker of Japanese and Filipino descent, associated with the Antifolk community of New York's East Village. Born in New York City to parents involved in the visual arts, she was raised in SoHo and Hell's Kitchen, attending public schools including Stuyvesant High School. It was at that school where she befriended Annabelle Zakaluk, with whom she co-fronted the Antifolk indie pop band Dream Bitches between 2004 and 2009.
In 2011 she relocated to Oakland, California where she joined the queer Deathrock band Bitter Fruit as guitarist and backing vocalist. Between 2012 and 2017 they toured nationally and released two albums, one studio album and one live album. Although she is self-taught on the guitar, her ear for harmonies is due to her ten-year involvement in the Young People's Chorus of New York City, directed by Francisco J. Núñez, with which she toured and competed both nationally and internationally.
Kikuchi has released four solo albums. Songs I Wrote For You (2003) is a collection of songs written and self-released during her time as an art student at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts. The double-album "How to Stay Amazed/Lilly Lafayette" (2008) is a retrospective of songs written between 2001 and 2006. "Menahan Tree" (2012) is a album of folky songs recorded by Casey Holford and named after the house/venue she shared from 2007-2010 with Jacinta Mack and Angela Carlucci (The Baby Skins, Herman Dune).
"Immediacy" (2018) has seen a departure from her previous sound: now playing bass with a full band behind her (Dibson T. Hoffweiler on the drums, Marissa Deitz on cello), she reaches new emotional depths through layers of cello harmony and stark, honest lyrics. The eight songs on Immediacy, recorded by Adam Hirsch at San Francisco's Tiny Telephone (the studio founded by John Vanderslice) reflect the most recent period of Kikuchi's life in which she maintains newfound sobriety, stability and growth.
Kaoru Jitsukawa was born in 1989. In October 2015, he won the 3rd place without first place at the Ron-Tibaud-Crespan International Competition in Paris France and received the Best Recital Award and the New Song Award.
He graduated from Tokyo National University of the Arts and Music department and graduated from the graduate school master's course. To date, he has won the Gold Prize in the 2007 Aston General Competition Chopin International Competition, the Pitina Piano Competition Superior Bronze Award and the Audience Award. 2008 Nagoya International Music Competition No. 1, together with the audience prize / Victor Award. 3rd place in the 77th Japanese Music Competition Piano Category. He was awarded the No. 1 place in the Southern Highland International Piano Competition in 2013 (Australia), March, 2015 at the Japan Chopin Piano Competition.
As an invitation to the music festival abroad, the appearance to the Chopin Knight (2015) which was held in Shanghai Music Festival (2008), Seoul International Music Festival (2012), Nobeon (France) is there. He has earned his trust from not only recitals but also famous musicians in the field of chamber music, and he continues to active his activities ambitiously.
Alongside his work as a soloist, he often plays chamber music with other instrumentals’ players. He studied with Ms. Chiyoko Yamada, Ms. Sumiko Mikimoto, Ms. Michiko Kasuya and Mr. Akira Eguchi. He has graduated Tokyo University of Arts and the master’s course of the Tokyo University of the Arts in Tokyo.
He has performed with Polish National Cracow Interior Tube, Tokyo New City Tube, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonic Chiba, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra and Osaka Symphony Orchestra. Yamaha support system scholarship year 2008, Chanel · Pugmarion Days participating artists in 2011. Piano studied with Yamada Chiyoko, Michiko Tomoko, Mikimoto Sumiko, Eguchi Rei, Forte Piano under Mr. Takako Ogura. Received the Ariadne · Musika Prize, Akasaka Prize, Acanthus Award, Oga Award at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 2011, it has won the Nagoya name station Rotary Club Tsubaki Prize. From January 2015 one year serialized the Yamaha web site "Pianist Lounge" "Wind blowing wind PART II ~ Etsukawa style music diary ~", now open as back number.
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