Misora Ozaki, 2016 Grand Prize, Will Give Solo Recital Celebrating CD Debut
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Misora Ozaki, the Grand Prize winner in 2016, will give a recital on May 16th at Hamarikyu Asahi Hall in Tokyo. She has released her first CD "Misora" in March thanks to her success in the PTNA Piano Competition, and this recital will celebrate her CD debut.Here is her photo album since last summer -> (during the performance of the Prokofiev's 3rd piano concerto at the final round of PTNA Piano Competition / at the awarding ceremony / at the press meeting after the awarding ceremony / guest performances at prize winners' concerts in several cities across Japan / guest performance at the PTNA recruiting session / Misora and her teacher Fumiko Eguchi, and supporting staffs (Showa Academia Musica, Japan Arts, King Record, PTNA) / at the recording and photo session / rehearsing the Schubert's piano quintet at the PTNA prize winners' concert on March 20th)
Here is a brief biography of Misora.
At the age of 5, she won the best prize at the A2 grade in PTNA Piano Competition, and won the gold prize in the Jr.G grade in PTNA Piano Competition when she was 14, followed by the prize of excellence at the Yasuko Fukuda Scholarship audition in 2011. She also won the gold prize at the professional section in the Chopin Piano Competition in ASIA in 2013.
Her first oversea experience was in her early teenage. She was really excited to hear her sounds being resonated in the hall with high ceiling, and also enjoyed communicating with participants from other countries. She then participated in the e-Piano junior competition at the age of 15, where she had plenty of experiences on and off the stage. She studied and prepared a lot for this competition, but was surprised to know that a participant 3 years younger than her got much more repertoires, and realized how different the education system or way of life were. She also enjoyed the off-day activities such as barbeque, making friends with other participants, etc. Other oversea experiences include Aloha Piano Festival in Hawaii, and the Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Israel.
At present, she is studying at Showa Academia Musica. She got interested in Opera recently, especially Puccini and Mozart, and tries to go to concerts that inspires her. One of the recent one was Tosca, starring Placido Domingo and Renée Fleming. She performed "Reminiscences de Don Juan" by Liszt at the final round of PTNA Piano Competition in 2016, and the opera really helped her to grow the imagination, according to her.
At college, she tries to work with other instrumentalists or singers as much as possible. She will perform piano trio with a program focused on Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn is one of the composers that she had played a lot during her teenage. Misora says that those works are not paid attention so much but difficult to play really well.
And in the concert in May, she will play Szymanowski's piece written at the age of 21, the same age as herself. She is thrilled to imagine how and why this composer wrote this piece at such a young age.
She has an elder brother, Yuhi Ozaki, who won the same PTNA Grand Prize in 2007. Misora has been listening to his playing piano from her childhood, and studied with the same teacher. They had been separate for several years as Yuhi had studied in Hanover, but that helped her become mentally and musically independent.
Here is her message to pianists of next generations.
"The memory you played on stage would encourage and invigorate yourself. Please give your best at any moment! "
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