Tomono Kawamura

Born in Japan, Tomono Kawamura took her first piano lesson at the age of three and went on to study music at the Yamaha under Fumiko Eguch.

Tomono won a number of competitions in Japan including the first prize at the PTC Piano Competition, the Japan Piano Education League Audition, and third prize at the PTNA Piano Competition. As a result of these prizes she played at a number of gala concerts in the major halls of Tokyo such as the Casals Hall and Orchard Hall.

Tomono had also taken composition lessons since the age of seven and has written ten pieces including a piano concerto. She has performed her compositions all over Japan and on tour in Israel. Her performances of her pieces were broadcast on televisio and recorded by Yamaha.

In 2000, Tomono was awarded a scholarship by the Yamaha Music Foundation to study with Christopher Elton and visiting professor Maria Curcio at the Royal Academy of Music in London where she has been awarded scholarships and won several prizes including the Douglas Cameron Prize, Greta G. M. Parkinson Prize, Leslie England Award, Andrew Sykes Award and Kenneth Sidney Brindle Award. She was also chosen as a soloist for concerto performances with orchestra several times and selected to play the Mozart piano concerto C minor with the Royal Academy Sinfonia at the Snape Malting in Aldeburgh. Tomono played Mozart Concerto Aria K505, ?Ch´io mi scordi di te?? on forte-piano directed by Trevor Pinnock who selected her to be the soloist. Later she was invited to study with Martino Tirimo at Trinity College of Music with a full scholarship awarded by the Derek Butler Trust.

Tomono has performed in a number of master classes with Angela Hewitt, Steven Hough, Hiroko Nakamura, ArieVardi, Karl Heinz Kammerling, Michel Dalbert, Pascal Devoyon, Lev Naumov, Dina Yoff, and Vera Gornostaeva.

Recently, Tomono has appeared both as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Asia, the Middle east, South America, Africa and Europe including UK in such venues as the Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, and the Wigmore Hall, London. Her most recent performances include a performance of Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 and Mozart Piano Concerto K491 in Draper?s Hall, London as well as successful recitals in Japan.

Programme
Mozart - Piano Sonata No 11 K331 'Alla Turca'
Chopin - Etude op 10 No 12 'Revolutionary'
Chopin - Prelude No 15 in D flat 'Raindrop'
Chopin - Ballade No 3 in A flat
J Strauss - Soirée de Vienne
Beethoven - Sonata No 14 in C Sharp Minor 'Moonlight'
Tokuyama - Musica Nara
Debussy - Claire de Lune
Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No 2

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