Noriko Ogawa News
Japanese pianist and music educator (1962-)
- piano
- classical music
- Japan
- pianist, music teacher
social networks
streaming
video channels
Last update
2024-03-17
Refresh
2024-01-06 09:54:00
At Kings Place this month, Turkish pianist Can Çakmur celebrates the Hamamatsu Competition which he won in 2018, not to mention embarking on his 12-disc Schubert with BIS
Can Çakmur (Photo: HIPIC)He won the Hamamatsu Competition in 2018 and has embarked on a 12-disc Schubert+ set with BIS, as part of an exclusive recording contract, surveying of Schubert’s complete major works for piano alongside music by other composers. He cites regular listening to the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in Ankara as part of his parents' subscription as an early influence, retains an interest in Hungarian piano pedagogy but also cites Robert Fripp as one of his heroes. Yet my chat to Turkish pianist Can Çakmur also touched on the complex, political yet fascinating history of music in Turkey, as well as talking about the discipline of running.In advance of the 2024 Hamamatsu Competition (which runs from 8 to 25 November), Can Çakmur will be joined by Noriko Ogawa (the Competition's Chair of the Jury) for a showcase concert at Kings Place on 19 January 2024.The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition was […]
2023-12-27 17:49:41
Pianist Noriko Ogawa is an internationally respected pianist and recording artist. She is one of the
2023-09-17 09:22:00
Polite pastoral: Handel's Tolomeo from Baroque Encounter
Handel: Tolomeo; Carmen Lasok, Glenn Kesby, Lucy Thomas, John Lofthouse, director: Christopher Tudor, conductor: Asako Ogawa; Baroque Encounter at St John's Smith SquareReviewed 16 September 2023A production given in period style that never quite managed to break out of the decorative pastoral entertainment and demonstrate the underlying drama of Handel's operaPremiered in 1728, Handel's Tolomeo was the last opera he would write for the great triumvirate of singers, castrato Senesino and sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. Handel would revive it in the 1730s, but its modern performance history is rather sparse. English Touring Opera did it in 2006 (revived 2009, see my review) and its best claim to fame, rather bizarrely, is that composer Arthur Somervell adapted on of the arias from the opera as the song Silent Worship.The opera made a welcome return to the London stage when Baroque Encounter performed it at St John's Smith Square on Saturday 16 September […]
2022-10-08 16:53:59
Noriko Ogawa and Katya Apekisheva at the London Piano Festival 2022
or
- timeline: Performers (Asia).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): O...