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Kusunoki Chisato - Piano

Biography

Biography Recent reviews of Chisato Kusunoki –  ‘….wonderfully fleet and supple fingers, quick to locate the music’s inner voices, able to dapple and perfume…. she'll be heard from; she’s got it.’                                                 Geoff Brown – The Times 16.i.2007 ‘….Justin Connolly’s Sonatina in Five Etudes introduced us to a staggering technique…..both Takemitsu’s and Skempton’s pieces were spiritually and emotionally rewarding especially when played with Kusunoki’s understanding and sympathy’                                                                                                            Kenneth Carter -  www.classicalsource.com 24.i.2007 Chisato Kusunoki is one of the most talented pianists of her generation.  Her performances are highly regarded for their lyrical intensity and subtle virtuosity.  She draws inspiration from all the composers she has studied from Bach to the present day.  Her performances are informed by an understanding of and affinity with such important composer pianists as Rachmaninoff, Godowsky and Medtner. She read music at University College, Oxford where she graduated with the prestigious Gibbs Prize and a first-class honours in performance.  Whilst at Oxford she performed Rachmaninoff’s 3^rd Piano Concerto to great acclaim. She completed her postgraduate performance diploma with distinction at the Royal Academy of Music, where she received a scholarship.  She studied with Nicholas Austin and Hamish Milne and has also worked with Dmitri Bashkirov, Alexander Satz, Rosalyn Tureck, James Gibb, Noriko Ogawa, Oxana Yablonskaya, Andrew Ball and Ronald Stevenson. Chisato was a prize-winner at the Newport International Competition for Young Pianists, 2003.  She has won many awards and scholarships throughout her studies in the UK and has also played in many festivals including the Gyorgy Kurtag Festival.  She has played at many important venues including the Purcell Room, London, Holywell Music Room, St John’s Smith Square, London, Sheldonian Theatre, St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, Balliol College Music Society, the Mendelssohn Institute in Leipzig and at Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo.  She is also an active chamber musician and has performed with the Allegri String Quartet.  In 2003 she was invited to take part in a BBC Radio 3 programme featuring music by Chopin.  In 2004 the cellist, Alexander Ivashkin invited Chisato to perform in the International Series at the Centre for Russian Music where she gave a lecture recital with Medtner scholar Francis Pott. Her repertoire is extensive and ranges from the earliest keyboard masters to contemporary composers.  She has an abiding love of the classics yet she also enjoys exploring less known works particularly by composers of the late romantic period.  She has made a special study of the music of Nikolai Medtner, on whose music she worked closely with Hamish Milne. Chisato is committed to contemporary music and has worked with several leading composers.  Her performance of Justin Connolly’s ‘Sonatina in Five Etudes’ was hailed by the composer.  She has a particular affinity for the music of Ronald Stevenson and has prepared several works under the guidance of the composer.  Stevenson has recently dedicated his ‘Nine Haiku’ to Chisato.  The composer David Hackbridge Johnson has dedicated several works to the pianist too.   Chisato made her debut at the South Bank Centre, Purcell Room in January 2007 as a part of the prestigious Park Lane Group series of concerts.  Later in 2007 she made her Wigmore Hall debut to great acclaim. Future engagements include appearances at Wigmore Hall, St James’ Piccadilly, Pump Room Bath and St Martin in the Filed.  In 2008 spring, Chisato made a recording of music by Schubert, Chopin, Medtner, Liapunov and Hackbridge Johnson.  She will be recording piano works of Stevenson for the Toccata Classics label in the autumn 2008.

 

Repertoire

SOLO REPERTOIRE


JS BACH;The Well-Tempered Clavier;
Book I: Nos. 8, 12, 22
Book II: Nos.16, 17, 20, 23;
JS BACH;Two part Inventions: Complete;
JS BACH;Three part Inventions: Selection ;
JS BACH;French Suite No.2;
JS BACH;Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue;
BALAKIREV; Islamey;
BALAKIREV;Sonata in B flat minor;
BALAKIREV;Transcription of Glinka’s The Lark;
BARBER Sonata Op.26;
BEETHOVEN;Sonata Op.2 No.3;
BEETHOVEN;Sonata Op.13 (Pathetique);
BEETHOVEN;Sonata Op.27 No.1;
BEETHOVEN;Sonata Op.27 No.2 (Moonlight);
BEETHOVEN;Sonata Op.28 (Pastoral);
BEETHOVEN;Sonata Op.31 No.2 (Tempest);
BEETHOVEN;Sonata Op.101;
BEETHOVEN;Sonata Op.106 (Hammerklavier);
BLUMENFELD;Etude for Left Hand Op.36;
BRAHMS;Variations on a Theme of Paganini Book I.
BRAHMS;Klavierstucke Op. 118.
CHOPIN;Sonata No.2 in B flat minor Op.35;
CHOPIN;Nocturnes:Op.9.Nos.1, 2 & 3,Op.27 No.1,Op.48 No.1,Op.55.No.2,Op.62 No.2;
CHOPIN;Polonaises:Op.40 No.1,Op.53 (Heroic),Op.61 (Polonaise- Fantasie);
CHOPIN;Ballades Nos.1,4;
CHOPIN;Barcarolle Op.60;
CHOPIN;24 Etudes:Selection;
CHOPIN;Preludes:Op.28 Nos.4,6,7 ,15;
CHOPIN;Valses:Op.18,Op.64 Nos.1&2,Op.69 No.2;
CHOPIN;Mazurkas:Op.7 No.1,Op.59 No.2,Op.68 No.3.
CHOPIN;Scherzo No2 Op.31
CHOPIN-GODOWSKY;Etudes Op.10 Nos.1,2,3,4,7,12;
CHOPIN-GODOWSKY;Etudes Op.25 Nos.6,8,11,12;
CONNOLLY,JUSTIN;Sonatina in Five Etudes;
DEBUSSY;Images,Series II;
DEBUSSY;L’Isle joyeuse.
DUTILLEUX;Sonata (1947);
FAURE;Nocturnes:Op.36,Op.63;
FRANCK;Prelude,Chorale et Fugue;
FRANCK;Prelude,Fugue et Variation,Op.18 (Orig. for Organ);
GLAZUNOV;Waltz in D;
GLAZUNOV;Sonata No.1 Op.74;
GODOWSKY;Two Pieces from Java Suite;
GODOWSKY;Passacaglia;
GRANADOS;El amor y la muerte from Goyescas;
HACKBRIDGE JOHNSON, DAVID;Album Leaf;
Five-coloured Parakeet on the Branch of a Blossoming Apricot Tree;
Promenade-Elegy;
Modal Preludes (selection);
Tales from the Forest;
KAPUSTIN, NIKOLAI;Concert Etude Nos.1, 3;
LIADOV;Preludes:Op.3 No.2,Op.40.No.3,Op.57 No.1;
LIAPUNOV;Transcendental Etude:Op.11,Nos.1,10,11;
LISZT;Sonata in B Flat Minor;
LISZT;Annees de Pelerinage: Sposalizio, Les jeux d’eaux a la Villa d’Este, Vallee d’Obermann,Les cloches de Geneve;
LISZT;Ballade No.2 ;
LISZT;La campanella;
LISZT;Transcendental Studies No.5(FeuFollets),No.10;
LISZT;Mephisto Waltz No.1;
LISZT;Deux Legendes;St.Francois de Paule marchant sur le flots, LISZT;Consolations Nos.2,3;
LISZT;Liebestraum No.3;
LISZTUn Sospiro;
MEDTNER;Sonata in G minor Op.22;
MEDTNER;Fairy Tale-Sonata Op.25 No1;
MEDTNER;Nightwind Sonata Op.25 No2;
MEDTNER;Sonata-Reminiscenza Op.38 No.1;
MEDTNER;Sonata Tragica Op.39,No5;
MEDTNER;Sonata- Ballade Op.27;
MEDTNER;Sonata Romantica Op.53;
MEDTNER;Fairy Tales,Skazki:Op.20 No.1,Op.26 Nos.2&3,Op.34,No.2,Op.35 No.4;
MENDELSSOHN;Rondo Capriccioso;
MONTSALVATGE;Sonatina;
MOZART;Sonata in A minor K.310;
MOZART;Sonata in C major K.545;
MOZART;Sonata in Dmajor K.576;
Adagio in B minor K.540;
PROKOFIEFF;Sonata No.3 Op.28;
PROKOFIEFF;Sonata No.4 Op.29;
PROKOFIEFF;Sonata No.8 Op84;
RACHMANINOFF;Sonata No.2 (Revised Version.);
RACHMANIOFF;Variations on a Theme of Corelli;
RACHMANINOFF;Moments Musicaux Op.16 (Complete);
RACHMANINOFF;Etudes Tableaux Op.33 No.3, Op.39 Nos.3, 7, 8;
RACHMANINOFF;Fragments;
RACHMANINOFF;Preludes: Op.23 No.4, Op.32, Nos.4, 5;
RAVEL;Ondine;
RAVEL;Jeux d’eau;
RAVEL;La Vallee des cloches (from Miroirs);
RAVEL;Pavane pour une infante defunte;
RUBINSTEIN;Melodie in F major;
SCHUBERT;Sonata in B major D.575;
SCHUBERT;Impromptus Nos.2&3 D899;
SCHUMANN;Davidsbundlertanze Op.6;
SCHUMANN;Sonata in F sharp minor Op.11;
SCHUMANN;Symphonic Etudes Op.13;
SCHUMANN;Fantasie in C major Op.17;
SKEMPTON, HOWARD;Three Nocturnes;
STEVENSON, RONALD;Symphonic Elegy for Liszt(1986);
Prelude,Fugue and Fantasy on Busoni’s Doktor Faust;Nine Hiaku;
Three Scottish Fairytales;Andante Sereno;Two Eclogues;
Transcription of Alan Bush’s The Misntrel’s Lay from ‘Wat Tyler’;
Transcriptions of Paderewski’s pieces;
TAKEMITSU;Litany;
TCHAIKOVSKY;The Seasons;
VILLA-LOBOS;Ciclo Brasileiro;

CONCERTO REPERTOIRE

BEETHOVEN Concerto No.1 in C major Op.15;
BEETHOVEN Concerto No.4 in Gmajor Op.58;
CHOPIN Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op.11;
GRIEG Concerto in A minor, Op.16;
MOZART Concerto in C minor, KV 491;
MENDELSSOHN Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.2;
PROKOFIEFF Concerto No.2 in G major Op.16;
RACHMANINOFF Concerto No.1 in F sharp minor Op.1;
RACHMANINOFF Concerto No.2 in C minor Op.18;
RACHMANINOFF Concerto No.3 in D minor Op.30;
RACHMANINOFF Concerto No.4 in G minor Op.40;
RAVEL Concerto in G major;
SCHUMANN Concerto in A minor;
SCRIABIN Concerto in F sharp minor Op.20;
TCHAIKOVSKY Concerto No.2 in G major, Op.44;

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