Maki Namekawa

Maki Namekawa ( Japanese 滑 川 真 希 , Namekawa Maki ; * in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese pianist.

Maki Namekawa, Aarhus Denmark 2017.
Photo Hreinn Gudlaugsson

Life

Namekawa studied at the Kunitachi University of Music in Tokyo with Mikio Ikezawa and at the Conservatoire de Paris with Henriette Puig-Roget and received the Japanese Leonid Kreuzer Prize in 1994 . From 1995 she was a student of Werner Genuit and Kaya Han at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and also did private studies with Edith Picht-Axenfeld , György Kurtág , Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Florent Boffard . After graduating as a soloist, she finally studied new music with Stefan Litwin at the Saarbrücken University of Music and Pierre-Laurent Aimard at the Cologne University of Music .

From 1997 to 2002 she taught at the music academies in Saarbrücken and Karlsruhe, as well as at the Darmstadt summer courses , where she also participated in the world premiere of works by Johannes Kalitzke . She has appeared at international festivals such as the Berlin Music Biennale (2001), the Ruhr Piano Festival (2002), the WDR's "Pianorama" piano festival (2003) and the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz (2003).

Namekawa played radio recordings a. a. at the Südwest-Rundfunk Stuttgart, the Saarland and Hessian radio, the Swiss radio and Radio France. In addition to her solo activity, she works a. a. in a duo with Dennis Russell Davies , under whose direction she performed Schönberg's piano concerto and Liszt's dance of death in 2004/05 with the Bruckner Orchester Linz .

Discography

• International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt 1998 , 2000
• Images 4 Music - Reich, Glass / Davies, Namekawa , Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies play works by Steve Reich and Philip Glass , DVD-Video, 2005
• Music 4 Hands - Glass, Reich / Namekawa, Davies , Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies play works by Steve Reich and Philip Glass , 2006