Hiroko Sasaki

Hiroko Sasaki is a pianist who performs in Europe, North America and Asia. At age 13, she began studying at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England. Soon after, she made her European début. At 16, she entered the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia in the United States, where she studied with Leon Fleisher, graduating in 1994. She later earned a Master of Music degree with Fleisher from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and an Artist Diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada.[1]

Sasaki continues to perform extensively as recitalist and chamber musician in England, Scotland, Taiwan, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Canada and the United States. She gives annual recitals in Carnegie’s Weill Hall and makes frequent tours of Japan. She is on the faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.[2] She is a member of The Amadeus Trio,[3] an American piano trio.

Discography
  • Debussy : Preludes, Book I & II, Hiroko Sasaki – Pleyel 1873 (Piano Classics record label)

Her performance of works for piano by Claude Debussy on a restored Pleyel concert grand piano that existed at the time Debussy composed the works received a very positive review in The Guardian.[4]

References
  1. "Hiroko Sasaki - Biography". Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  2. "Faculty Profiles - Hiroko Sasaki". Bard College Conservatory of Music. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  3. "The Amadeus Trio". Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  4. Clements, Andrew. "Debussy: Preludes Books I and II review – beautiful sound Debussy would have recognised". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
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