Mother Daughter Team, Claudia Kobayashi on Piano,
Akiko Kobayashi on Violin
Sunday, May 22, 2011
4 p.m.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
4 p.m.
Mother daughter team, Claudia Kobayashi, piano, and Akiko Kobayashi, violin, will perform in the Chapel Restoration on Sunday, May 22. Their program of Bach, Debussy and Mozart as well as the contemporary Estonian sensation, Arvo Pärt, begins at 4. The concert is free.
Claudia Kobayashi, born in Osaka, Japan, made her Tokyo debut playing Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 with Aurora Orchestra. She has also performed in Tokyo’s Ginza Energy and Higashi-Murayama concert halls, and in Europe with chamber music groups, including Leipzig’s Bach-Archiv, Bucharest’s Romanian Atheneum, and Centro Culturale in Venice. She began piano studies, age four, at Osaka’s Sohai College of Music in its pre-division, and went on to the renowned Toho School of Music. After earning a law degree at Keio University, Tokyo, Claudia Kobayashi continued piano studies in Manhattan with Elena Shematoff-Hutchins, founder and director of Special Music School, and at Juilliard. She also studied with Victor Aitay, Concertmaster Emeritus of Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Akiko Kobayashi, born in New York, has performed as soloist with the Tokyo Suginami Kokaido Chamber Orchestra and with Yonkers Philharmonic and Jamaica Symphony orchestras. She has also played in New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine; at the All-Mozart Fall Festival Gala Concert, Allegheny Riverstone Center for the Arts, Foxburg, Pennsylvania; and the Gala Chamber Music Concert, Nyack Academy of Music Summer Festival. She has won a string of awards, among them, First Prize in both the American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition and the Richmond County Orchestra Concerto Competition, as well as Distinguished Musician Diploma at the IBLA Grand Prize Competition in Sicily, where the jury cited her “remarkably precise and honest playing, with no artificial effects.”
A graduate of Yale University with a double degree in biology and music, Akiko Kobayashi has a Master of Music in Classical Violin from Manhattan School of Music. Her debut album is scheduled for release this spring.
Claudia Kobayashi, born in Osaka, Japan, made her Tokyo debut playing Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 with Aurora Orchestra. She has also performed in Tokyo’s Ginza Energy and Higashi-Murayama concert halls, and in Europe with chamber music groups, including Leipzig’s Bach-Archiv, Bucharest’s Romanian Atheneum, and Centro Culturale in Venice. She began piano studies, age four, at Osaka’s Sohai College of Music in its pre-division, and went on to the renowned Toho School of Music. After earning a law degree at Keio University, Tokyo, Claudia Kobayashi continued piano studies in Manhattan with Elena Shematoff-Hutchins, founder and director of Special Music School, and at Juilliard. She also studied with Victor Aitay, Concertmaster Emeritus of Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Akiko Kobayashi, born in New York, has performed as soloist with the Tokyo Suginami Kokaido Chamber Orchestra and with Yonkers Philharmonic and Jamaica Symphony orchestras. She has also played in New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine; at the All-Mozart Fall Festival Gala Concert, Allegheny Riverstone Center for the Arts, Foxburg, Pennsylvania; and the Gala Chamber Music Concert, Nyack Academy of Music Summer Festival. She has won a string of awards, among them, First Prize in both the American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition and the Richmond County Orchestra Concerto Competition, as well as Distinguished Musician Diploma at the IBLA Grand Prize Competition in Sicily, where the jury cited her “remarkably precise and honest playing, with no artificial effects.”
A graduate of Yale University with a double degree in biology and music, Akiko Kobayashi has a Master of Music in Classical Violin from Manhattan School of Music. Her debut album is scheduled for release this spring.
