Mami Sakato

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Mami Sakato ( Japanese坂 戸 真 美, Sakato Mami ; born in Japan in the second half of the 20th century ) is a Japanese church musician and concert organist who works internationally.

Life

The Catholic Himonya -Church
in Tokyo, at the Mami Sakato as titular organist operates

Sakato first studied with Henriette Puig-Roget at the private music academy Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo . She then continued her training in Germany at the Saar University of Music in Saarbrücken with Daniel Roth and in France at the Conservatoire de Paris .

Then she was a student of Olivier Latry at the Conservatoire National de Région de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés until 1992 . Finally, from 1996 to 1997 she studied harpsichord with Michael Eberth at the University of Music and Theater in Munich .

Sakato is titular organist at the Catholic Himonya Church in Tokyo and organist at the private Aoyama Gakuin University there . In addition to her work as a church musician, she regularly gives concerts in Japan and Europe, in particular France, Spain and Germany. Her repertoire includes a. Works by well-known French composers such as Camille Saint-Saëns , Maurice Duruflé and Charles-Marie Widor . Her first audio CD, released in 2010 and dedicated to organ music of the early 20th century, received excellent reviews; a second CD followed in 2014.

Mami Sakato is a member of the Japan Organ Society .

Musical success

In 1990 Sakato received the first prize for organ at the Conservatoire in Paris, the Premier Prix d'Orgue . In 1990 and 1991 she was a finalist in the Bordeaux International Organ Competition . In 1992 she received the gold medal in the organ class from Olivier Latry and won second prize at the César Franck competition for organ in Haarlem, the Netherlands .

Publications (selection)

  • 2010 Futatsu No Inori , audio CD
  • 2014 Le Dialogue des Vents-Musiquea , audio CD
  • Choral improvisation Sur Le Victimae Paschali , MP3 track
  • Deux Prieres Pour Grand Orgue: Priere Pour Un Jour De Joie , MP3 track
  • Deploracion Para La Semana Santa - Meditation Dans Le Gout Espagnol , MP3 track
  • Choral No.1 En Mi Majeur , MP3 track

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Short biography on orguechatou.online.fr (French), accessed on July 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ Short biography on orgelfestival.ch , accessed on July 14, 2017.
  3. ↑ Program of the festival for classical music Quincena Musical de San Sebastián 2014 in San Sebastian , quinceamusical.eus, accessed on August 22, 2017, (pdf file, p. 7).
personal data
SURNAME Sakato, mommy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese church musician and concert organist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Japan