[2020-11-01] Masako Okoshi and Junko Sakimura: piano and cimbalom duo recital

Following the well-received concert at the Museum of Kyoto's Annex Hall, we are bringing the sound of the cimbalom to Tokyo with an adaptation of last month's Kyoto programme!
Enjoy its evocative Eastern European sound alongside Beethoven, in the 250th anniversary year of his birth.
To help prevent infection, the concert will take place with a greatly reduced number of seats.
If you would like to attend, please contact us early.

The Joy of Music series 2020–3

Sunday, 1 November 2020
Doors 14:30; concert 15:00
Venue: Karura Hall
Tickets: ¥2,500

• Beethoven: Les Adieux
• Saint-Saëns: The Swan
• Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances
• Popper: Hungarian Rhapsody
• Monti: Csárdás, and other works

A short cimbalom workshop will follow the concert.

Advance reservation required; places are limited.

Organised by I.P.G.W. Tokyo

Performer biographies

Masako Okoshi — piano

After graduating from Kunitachi College of Music, Masako Okoshi studied in Vienna. Alongside her studies with M. Krist, professor at the Vienna University of Music, she attended international masterclasses with O. Maisenberg and many others. She performed across Europe, including a recital series in Vienna and a pianists' marathon in Barcelona. Since returning to Japan, she has been active in solo and duo performances. During her stay at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, in 2004–2005, she gave several well-received concerts. Her teachers have included Ryoko Toyota, the late Sayoko Fukami, Toshiko Kiryu, M. Krist and the late J. F. Alonso. In September 2020 she appeared with Junko Sakimura in her cimbalom recital at the Museum of Kyoto, to a favourable reception.

Junko Sakimura — cimbalom

Junko Sakimura graduated from the percussion department of Kunitachi College of Music. She studied marimba with Akiko Suzuki, Tomoko Kusakari, Shinichi Ueno and Tomoyuki Okada, and cimbalom with Yasuko Kano. Beginning with her recital in 1990, she has performed actively, including in the Japanese premieres of Stravinsky's Renard (Japanese-language version), Kurtág's Grabstein für Stephan and Concertante, and Costello's IL SONGO. Internationally, she represented Japan at the Third World Cimbalom Congress in Slovakia in 1995, appeared on Slovak television and in Pravda and other publications, and gave well-received performances in Germany, Switzerland, Canada, China and elsewhere.

INTERNATIONALEN PIANISTEN GESELLSCHAFT WIEN TOKYO KONZERTREIHE

Piano recital series: The Joy of Music

This concert series brings together accomplished mid-career pianists with the aim of bringing music closer to listeners. At a time when classical music can seem increasingly distant from its audience, it offers dedicated performers a platform in a salon setting. Many works written before the Romantic era were originally heard by small audiences in private homes. Returning to the essentials—immersing ourselves in music, feeling and reflecting, with listeners close at hand—the series offers an intimacy in which the performers' breathing can be heard, unlike a large hall seating 1,000 or 2,000.

Karura Hall

3-16-12 Kyodo, Setagaya-ku

Tel. 03-3439-7507. A 13-minute walk from Chitose-Funabashi Station on the Odakyu Line.

Turn right out of the ticket gates, then right before Marugame Seimen, and continue about 300 metres alongside the elevated railway.
Turn left at the traffic lights where the Create drugstore is on your right, then continue straight.
Pass Koguma Dental Clinic on the left and turn right before Seven-Eleven. The hall is the second building from the corner.

If taking a taxi, please get off at Kyodo Station.

https://www.karurahall.com/