Rikako Watanabe

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Rikako Watanabe (* 1964 ) is a Japanese organist and composer.

Watanabe studied composition at the Kunitachi College of Music Tokyo. She then continued her education at the Conservatoire de Paris , where she received a first prize in composition and studied piano and organ with Loïc Mallié . As a student of Eric Lebrun at the St. Maur Conservatory, she won the gold medal in the 1993 Montbrison International Improvisation Competition. In 1996 she married the composer Jean-Claude Henry .

Watanabe published several organ compositions, including Jardin de Pierre (1994) and Trois Rêves de la quinzième Nuit de la Lune .

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SURNAME Watanabe, Rikako
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964