Yuki Ito, Piano Recital

Yuki Ito is a talented pianist born in Japan. After completing her studies at Toho-Gakuen University in Tokyo, where she studied with Fujiko Yamada and Kel Itoh, she came to France in 2017 to continue her studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Bruno Rigutto. In 2018, she entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse (CNSMD) of Lyon in the class of Laurent Cabasso and Hélène Bouchez, and in 2019, she was also admitted to the accompanying class of David Selig.

Yuki Ito has won numerous competitions, including first prize at the International Chopin Competition in Asia, first prize at the Tokyo Piano Competition, and first prize at the Kanagawa Music Competition, among others.

She has given many concerts as a soloist, notably with the Kanagawa Symphony Orchestra in Japan. She has also performed in recitals in France and has played Ravel's Concerto with the orchestra of the Conservatoire du Grand Chalon, Schumann's Concerto with the orchestra of the CNSMD of Lyon, and Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto with the "La Chambre Symphonique" orchestra. Yuki Ito has participated in various festivals where she has achieved great success.

Program and cast

SCHUMANN

Scenes from Childhood

1. From Foreign Lands and People (Von fremden Ländern und Menschen)

2. Curious Story (Kuriose Geschichte)

3. Blind Man's Buff (Hasche-Mann)

4. The Supplicating Child (Bittendes Kind)

5. Perfect Happiness (Glückes genug)

6. An Important Event (Wichtige Begebenheit)

7. Reverie (Träumerei)

8. By the Fireside (Am Kamin)

9. Knight on a Hobbyhorse (Ritter vom Steckenpferd)

10. Almost Too Seriously (Fast zu ernst)

11. Bogeyman (Fürchtenmachen)

12. The Child Falls Asleep (Kind im (Falling asleep)

13. The poet speaks

CHOPIN

24 Preludes, Opus 28