Piano, KEIKO HATTORI

born in 1979 in Japan. At the age of three she took the first piano lesson. After she graduated with the highest qualifications from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, from 2001 to 2008 she studied as one of the scholarship students by the Japanese Rohm Music Foundation with Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she graduated in 2008, obtaining the Magister Degree, also with the highest qualifications.

Keiko HATTORI has already won several renowned competition prizes, including first prize in all categories (solo piano, song duo and chamber music) at the 17th International Schubert Competition 2004 in Italy and the second prize, the audience prize and all special prizes (the prize for chamber music and the prize for the interpretation of a contemporary composition) in the 2nd International Beethoven Competition for Piano 2007 in Bonn, Germany.

Her numerous recitals and chamber music concerts brought her around international festivals such as the International Beethoven Festival Bonn, the International Bodensee Festival, the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Pianoforte Festival Meissen, the Mozartweeks Eifel (Germany), International Music Festival "Musica in Castello" (Italy), March Music Days International Music Festival (Bulgaria) and concert halls (Musikverein Vienna, Konzerthaus Berlin, Musikhalle Hamburg, Beethovenhalle Bonn, Herkulessaal Munich, Meistersingerhalle Nürnberg, Liederhalle Stuttgart etc.) in Austria, Germany, Schwitzerland, Holland, Belgium, Finland, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and Japan.

She has already appeared in many concerts with renowned musicians such as Mischa Maisky, Stephan Picard and the Asasello Quartett and orchestras (among others the WDR Radio Orchestra of Cologne, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Bonn Classic Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra and Polnish National Philharmonic Orchestra of Chenstohowa conducted by Peter Gülke, Heribert Beissel, Roman Kofman, Georg Mais and Jerzy Salwarowski).