Mizuka Kano

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Mizuka Kano (* 1978 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese classical pianist who has lived in Berlin since 2003.

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Mizuka Kano received her first piano lessons from her mother at the age of four and a year later at the local music school. After attending the Toho High School for Music in Tokyo, she studied at the Toho Gakuen University of Music with Hidemitsu Hayashi, Mikako Abe and Michail Woskressensky.

In 2003 she continued her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts with Klaus Hellwig and graduated in 2012 with the concert exam. She also took master classes with Sergio Perticaroli , Joaquín Achúcarro , Pavel Gililov , Jerome Rose , Piotr Paleczny , Vladimir Viardo and Eliso Wirsaladze .

Mizuka Kano has won various international awards. In 2002 she won a second prize at the First International Rachmaninoff Competition in Los Angeles. In 2005 she won first prize and the audience prize at the 56th GB Viotti International Competition in Vercelli (Italy). In 2008 she won first prize at the International Robert Schumann Competition for Piano in Zwickau. In the same year she received a scholarship from the Federal President at the Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin as a pianist in the Eos piano quartet.

As a soloist she has played with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Pasadena Philharmonic Orchestra (California), the Orchestra Sinfonica di San Remo (Italy), the Minami Osawa Orchestra (Japan) and the Munich Chamber Orchestra . She also worked as a chamber musician and played in various ensembles - from song accompaniment and duo to piano quintet. She has given concerts in Germany, Japan, Italy, Great Britain, Austria and the USA.

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SURNAME Kano, Mizuka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION japanese classical pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo