Saori Ōno

Saori Ōno ( Japanese 多 紗 於 里 , Ōno Saori ; * 1970 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese pianist .

Life

In 1972 she moved with her parents to Germany , where she started playing the piano at the age of four.

She first studied at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart with Lieselotte Gierth and Gerd Lohmeyer. After completing her graduate degree, she continued her studies in the United States . First she studied with Menahem Pressler at Indiana University in Bloomington , where she received an artist diploma . She then studied at the Department of Chamber Music at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee . In 2005 she received her doctorate (Doctor of Musical Arts) from the City University of New York . Her doctoral thesis was titled "The Piano Chamber Music of Maurice Ravel ." She also studied several times at the Aspen Music Festival and School with Rita Sloan and Joseph Kalichstein and in New York with Lev Natochenny .

Saori Ohno won first prize in the federal competition " Jugend musiziert " in 1986 and won the E. Nakamichi Piano Competition in Aspen in 1992 , the Indiana University Piano Competition in 1994 and was a prize winner at the Fischoff and Coleman chamber music competitions.

She has given concerts in Europe, the United States, Japan and Taiwan as a soloist and chamber musician.

Since 2007 she has been teaching at the Shōbi Gakuen Daigaku in Saitama Prefecture and at the Shobi Music College .

In 2010 their first CD was released (WWCC-7662).

Web links

• Website (English)
• Shobi Music College