Piano Master Class Presented By

Professor Kyoko Hashimoto

October 22, 2024 | 4 p.m. | Convocation Hall

Concerto no. 1 in E-flat major | Liszt

• Raphael Jahnert
• Paolo Tablante

Capriccio brillant in B minor, op. 22 | Mendelssohn Bartholdy

• Amy Chau
• Julia Chau

Concerto no. 4 in G major, op. 58 | Beethoven

Allegro moderato

• Gabe Omolida
• Rose Yam

Kyoko Hashimoto was born in Tokyo and began to study the piano at the age of three. After graduating from the Toho-Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, she studied at the International Menuhin Music Academy, Indiana University and the Juilliard School. Among her teachers were György Sebök, Menahem Pressler, William Masselos, György Sandor, György Kurtág and Ferenc Rados.

She has been regularly performing throughout the world, so far in more than 35 countries, including many major cities and halls such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Lincoln Center and the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, etc. She has been invited to many important festivals including the Prague Spring Festival, the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, the Pacific Music Festival and the Saito Kinen Festival. Besides performing Solo recitals worldwide, she has performed Concertos with distinguished orchestras such as the Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra with an extensive repertoire, from Bach to contemporary. She has performed many duo recitals with the world’s top musicians such as Ruggiero Ricci (Vn), Thomas Zehetmair (Vn) and Antonio Meneses (Vc), and duo and chamber music concerts with artists such as Vegh (Vn), Maisky (Vc), Kantorow (Vn), Kirshbaum(Vc), Isserlis (Vc), Adorján (Fl), Gallois (Fl), Bourgue (Ob), Prinz (Cl), Collins (Cl), Schellenberger (Ob), Tuckwell (Hr), Arad (Va), Marwood (Vn), Imai (Va), Horigome (Vn), Azzolini (Fg), van Keulen (Vn), Juillet (Vn), Faust (Vn), Baumann (Hr), Pasquier (Vn), Haimovitz (Vc), Hirschhorn (Vn), Shaham (Vn), Myers (Hr), Mann (Vn), Ženatý (Vn), Neubauer (Va), Rhodes (Va), Petracchi (Cb), and Giuranna (Va).

Ms. Hashimoto was awarded numerous prizes such as the 1st grand prize and the public prize at the Concours International de Musique Française, the top prize at the Concours Musical de France, and the special prizes at the Budapest International Music Competition and at the Spohr International Competition. She has recorded many times for TV and radio worldwide including a series of 20 works by Beethoven for Dutch radio. Her performances were many times featured for CBC (Canada) and BBC (UK) and in 2012, her concert performance of a Schubert Impromptu was selected alongside recordings by Edwin Fischer, William Kapell and Wilhelm Backhaus for a programme of 'Great Schubert Performances' in the BBC “. She has also made more than twenty CD recordings, including Solo recordings of Messiaen, Schumann, Scriabin, Shostakovich, Schubert, Debussy, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartók, Blumenfeld, Mozart, and Terashima

She is a Professor of Piano and Coordinator of the Piano Area at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She was on the piano and chamber music faculty of the Utrecht Conservatory in Holland for 12 years. She has been invited as an International Jury member for many competitions such as the Gina Bachauer Piano Artists Competition (USA), CMC Steppingstone Competition (Canada), Montreal Competition (Canada), Piana del Cavaliere Piano Competition (President of the Jury, Italy), YAMAHA Benelux Competition (the Netherlands) and Maj Lind Piano Competition (Finland). She has been the Artistic Director of the International Music Workshop and Festival (IMWAF) in the Czech Republic, Germany and Portugal since 2004. She has also given master classes in many major music institutions in most European, North American and Asian countries.