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- Japan
Japanese-born pianist Kimiko Imani performs as a soloist and versatile chamber musician.
She currently teaches at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and has been a lecturer at the
the Berlin University of the Arts. Kimiko Imani studied with Anatol Ugorski at the Detmold University of Music, where she passed her concert exam in 2005. In 2017, she took up studies in fortepiano at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel with Edoardo Torbianelli in order to refine her early classical and romantic repertoire. Among other prizes, in 2000 she won the GWK sponsorship prize from the Society for Westphalian Cultural Work in Münster.
The pianist performs as a soloist with renowned orchestras in Japan and Europe and made her debut as a soloist with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Her primary passion, however, is chamber music. She regularly performs at international music
international music festivals and concert series in Europe and Asia, including Tokyo Spring, the Sony Music Foundation, the Palau de la Música Catalana, the Ljubljana Festival and the Moritzburg Festival. She has an intensive collaboration with the bassoonist Sergio Azzolini and the oboist Maurice Bourgue. Since 2011 they have formed the Maurice Bourgue Trio, an outstanding ensemble ensemble that has released its first CD with Sony Classical.
The ongoing collaboration with Albrecht Mayer led to concerts in 2020 by NDR Hamburg and ARTE tv, which were broadcast live on behalf of Deutsche Grammophon.
Most recently the duo gave a recital in Québec/Canada in 2022. Further CD productions have been made for GWK-Records, CAvi Music and Deutschlandradio Kultur.
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