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Masae Barbotte - Piano

Biography

Masae Gimbayashi-Barbotte was born in Tokyo, where she was an honors graduate of the Oin High School. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree of International Christian University. In 1992 she received Piano’s Teaching Diploma in Unanimity with jury’s congratulation from Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, where she worked with pianists Serge Petitgirard, Victoria Melki, and with violinist Serge Blanc. Since 10 years she worked closely with pianist Jay Gottlieb, who worked with Nadia Boulanger and Robert Casadessus, also with pianists Catherine Collard, Yvonne Loriod, Dominique Merle, Claude Heifer, Pierre-Laurent Aimed and Martial Solal. 

Masae is recipient of the Flaine Music Festival’s funds, the Acanthe Festival’s funds, First Prize's winner of the Concours de Madeleine de Valmalete(France) in Unanimity with jury’s congratulation, Excellent Prize of Asia Music Concert (Japan), Belgian Section’s Prize of the Academie Européenne des Arts(France). 

She has given many recitals in France and Japan, City Hall of  Courbevoie, Eglise St.Marcel of Allevard-les-Bains, Theatre de Bourges, the Auditorium Rostropovitch in Beauvais, Tokyo Opera-Citiy Iris Hall, Koma Epta-Zaal, Iwasaki museam in Yakohama,...

She is dedicateur and also often a world first createur of works: For Piano of Fumio Yasuda, First Christians and Concerto of Michel Bosc, Dieu? and Etude arpegique de concert of Christian Torunay, 9 Esquisses de Serge Ollve.

She has collaborated with singers such as Dominique Guillevan-Lebrun, Yukiko Suzaki, Genevieve Renaud, Maki Orita, and the artists as Ako Badilian, Aki Wakunai.

 “Dazzling concert- She explored the variety and the richness of the instrument. The pure happiness for the audience, who called her again and again.”(Dauphiné Libéré,France)

“The brilliant sonority, the beautiful sound like jewels” (Ongaku gendai, Japan)

 “Happy moments of the audience” (Dauphiné Libéré, France)

“It was so beautiful!”(Gilles Benjamin, artist painter, USA)

 “Masae possesses the capacity to incorporate and combine diverse cosmic world and make magic with them. She is a real artist in that she constantly seeks, in each project that she undertakes, to go as far as she can. I recommend her without hesitation, certain that she deserves all possible aid that can be given to her.”(Jay Gottlieb, concertist international, USA)

 “An artist of a big talent” (Alain Bizet, artist painter,France)

“She has shown a new aspect of piano music, which inspired me a real sympathy. She is an artiste to whom we can expect not only how she plays but "what" she plays”(Revue Chopin, Japan)  

“So musical!” (For her interpretation of Déodat de Sévrac, Pascal Devoyon, concertist international, France)

  

 

Repertoire

Piano solo Repertoire
SCARLATTI Sonate no.4

RAMEAU Gavotte et Variations

JS BACH Clavier bien tempere no 3,11,15 vol.2
Concerto Italien BWV971
Suite Française no.3 BWV814
Inventions
Partita no.1 BWV825

MOZART Sonate no.5 KV283
Sonate no.9 KV310
Sonate no.10 KV330
Sonate no.11 KV331
Sonate no.12 KV332
Sonate no.13 KV333
Sonate no.16 KV545
Sonate no.18 KV576
Fantaisie en Re mineur KV397
Fantaisie en UT mineur KV475
Rondo en Re majeur KV485

BEETHOVEN Sonate no. 8 Pathetique
Sonate no.10,
Sonate no.12,
Sonate no.14,
Sonate no.15,
Sonate no.19,
Sonate no.20,
Sonate no.21 Waldstein
Sonate no.25,
Sonate no.26 les Adieux
Sonate no.31
Six Variations
Ecossaise

SCHUBERT Quatre Impromptus Op.90
Moments Musicaux Op.94

SCHUMANN Fantasiestucke Op.12
Scene d enfants
Davidbundlertanze Op.6
Fantaisie Op.17
Noveletten Op.21 no.4, no.8
Au soir
Humoresque

BRAHMS Capriccio Op.76
Deux Rhapsodies Op. 79
3 Intermezzos Op.117
Intermezzos Op.118,Op.119

CHOPIN 12 Etudes Op.10 no.4,no.5,no.9,no.10
12 Etudes Op.25 no.1 Aeolian Harp, no.5, no.12
Premiere Ballade Op.23
Barcarolle Op.60
Fantaisie Impromptu Op.66
Valses Op.18 Grand Valse Brillant
Op.34 no.2<
Op.64 no.1 minute
Op.69 no.1 Posthume
Op.69 no.2 Posthume
Sonate en si mineur Op.58
3 Nocturnes no.9
3 Nocturnes no.15
2 Nocturnes no.27
2 Nocturnes no.62
Scherzo en si mineur Op.58
Mazurkas
24 Preludes extracts

LISZT Etudes d execution transcendante no.12
Six Etudes d apres Paganini no.4
Deux Legendes
L annee de Pelerinage 3eme annee

MENDELSSOHN Chansons sans paroles extracts

WEBER Invitation a la danse Op.65

SAINT-SAENS Toccata d apres le Concerto no.5

RACHMANINOFF Etudes Tableaux Op.39 no.5

TCHAIKOVSKI Les Saisons n.11

GRIEG Pieces Lyriques

FAURE Impromptu no.2 en fa mineur
Nocturnes no.4 en la bemol majeur
No.6 en la bemol majeur
No.13 en si mineur

DEBUSSY Suite Bergamasque
Pour le piano
L Isle Joyeuse
Masques
Children s Corner
Etude pour les arpeges composes
Images
Preludes cahiers 1, 2

RAVEL Jeux d eau
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Sonatine
Miroirs
Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Le Tombeau de Couperin

STRAVINSKY Petrouchka
Serenade in A

JANACEK Sur un sentier recouvert
Dans les brumes
Sonate 1er octobre 1905

COPLAND For Piano Blues
Three moods
Midsummer Nocturne

Midday Thoughts
In Evening Air
Down a Country Lane
Piano Sonate

de SEVRAC Baigneuse au soleil

SATIE Piano Music Vol.2
3 Gymnopedies

WEBERN Variation Op.27

GERSHWIN Preludes for piano
Rhapsody in Blue version piano solo
American in Paris
Song-Book
Impromptu in two keys

IVES Sonate Concord 3rd The Alcot
4th Thoreau

BARTOK Six Danses Bulgares extraits de Microcosmos

POULENC Improvisations

CAGE Ophelia
In a Landscape
Dream

COWELL Aeolian Harp

MESSIAEN Catalogue d Oiseaux no.13 Courlis cendres
Prelude no.8 Un reflet dans le vent

OHANA Etude pour la 3eme pedale

TAKEMITSU Piano Distance
Les Yeux Clos 2
YAMADA He and She
The unforgettable night in Moscow

ROUSSEL Trois Pieces Op.49

SCELSI Quattro Illustrazioni

MANSART Fantaisie

CIPRIANI La Sirenetta
Oura
Onigashima

DELLO JOJO Piano Sonata no.3

IFUKUBE Piano Suite

JARRETT Koln Concert

LIGETI Etude 2: Cordes Vides

GRAINGER Irish Tune from County Derry Transcription

ALBRIGHT The Machine Age

DUCKWORTH Imaginary Dances
Time Curb Preludes extracts

EVANS Reflections in D
I love you Porgy
Waltz for Debby, etc.

COREA Children s songs
Noon Song

ADAMS China Gates

METRATONE Impromptu Fantastique

OLLIVE 9 esquises

BOSC First Christians
La marchande des allumettes

TOURNAY Dieu
Etude Arpegique de Concert

YASUDA For Piano recital

Concertos

BEETHOVEN Concerto no.3

CHOPIN Concerto no.1

RAVEL Concerto en Sol

GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
Concerto en Fa

ADDINSEL Concerto de Varsovie

OHANA Concerto pour piano

YASUDA Concerto

BOSC Concerto


Chamber music from Renaissance to the 21th century

Jazz standards

Improvisation

Soundclips

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