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Achieving tremendous success as a soloist with Japanese and
overseas orchestras, Kyoko Tabe (pronounced Tah-beh) has
firmly set her position as an international pianist. The
excitement and brilliance of her performances consistently
thrills and lingers deep impression to her audience.
Kyoko has certainly gained great number of supporters
through her recording and concerts. She performs actively,
and is known as a representative figure for Japanese
pianists.
Kyoko Tabe is from Muroran city, Hokkaido. At the age of
four, Kyoko began piano lessons, following which she
continued her studies as a student at the Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts' and Music high school.
While in her school-days Kyoko became the youngest artist to
win first prize in the Japan Music Competition (1984).
This remarkable feat put her in
the spotlight of public attention.
After winning the
Japan Agency of Cultural Affairs' scholarship in 1988,
while
still a university student at the Tokyo National University
of Fine Arts and Music, she
attended the Hochschüle der Künste Berlin. Her
achievements in international piano competitions
includes; first prize at Epinal International Piano
Competition in France; Schnabel Piano Competition in Berlin;
3rd prize at International Music Competition ARD in Munich;
as well as major prizes at the Chopin International Piano
Competition in Warsaw. Kyoko
graduated as a top student from Hochschüle der Künste Berlin
for both her undergraduate and graduate studies.
Kyoko Tabe has performed with various esteemed orchestras and ensembles
such as
the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow
Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Barcelona City
Orchestra, Poland Radio Symphony, Bamberger Symphoniker, San
Jose Symphony, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Lausanne Chamber
Orchestra, Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra, Manchester
Camerata, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, the Wiener
Bläserensemble, and Carmina Quartet. She was directly
nominated as a guest player by Alban Berg Quartet. Kyoko is
much trusted by various world famous performers. In 1997,
she made her debut in New York on a recital which is
presented by Carnegie Hall with a great success.
Kyoko Tabe has been giving recitals throughout the country and has earned
numerous engagements with Japan's major orchestras. More
than twenty of Kyoko Tabe's recordings such as Schubert’s
Sonata series, Mendelssohn’s “Songs without Words”,
Sibelius’s “Piano Works”, Debussy’s “Piano Works” and
Greig’s “Piano Works”, have been released by DENON and
CHANDOS. All recordings have won acclaimed praises from
Stereo Review (United States), England's BBC Music Magazine
and Gramophone, and Germany's Phono Forum.
Takashi Yoshimatsu's “Pleiades
Dances” and “Memo Flora” (piano concerto), especially
composed for Kyoko, captured listeners from various fields.
All her Romantic repertoire recordings, such as Schubert’s
piano sonata series, have been highly acclaimed by critics
and featured by magazines.
Kyoko Tabe’s successful recital series “Schubert’s Zyklus”,
which began in 2003 at Hamarikyu Asahi hall, has since
gained such remarkable reputation, that Kyoko is now known
to be a representative pianist for Schubert’s works in
Japan.
In addition to all her achievements, Kyoko is also the
winner for the Muramatsu Award (the grand award of music
division) and the Nippon Steel Music Award.
Currently,
she bases her activities mainly in Japan and Europe.
Till date, famed teachers she has studied with include Prof.
Klaus Hellwig, Mrs. Maria Curcio, Ms. Aiko Onishi, Prof.
Hiroshi Tamura and Ms. Kiyoko Tanaka.
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