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Yoko Sata Kothari, Pianist

Sunday, April 7, 2024 2:00 pm


Yoko Sata Kothari, pianist

Piano Music Dedicated to Family & Friends: That’s What Friends (and Family) Are For!

Sunday, April 7, 2024 @ 2 pm

Free; registration required.

None of us can go through life without family and friends. They stand by you to double your joy and divide your sorrow in life. Throughout the history of classical music, many composers composed music for their family and friends for different reasons. This program features pieces which composers dedicated to their special people, including their brother, sister, and more!

This is not a typical musical concert. Being a storyteller at the piano as well as an artist, Kothari’s missions are both to communicate with the audience with her signature talk and to have them experience the interesting stories behind the music through her performances. Her uniquely titled concert programs are designed to relate to everyone as well as to educate them. At this concert, she is going to "Talk & Play" a program, which include music by Brahms, Beethoven, and Liszt.

Registration is required. Seating is limited.

About Yoko Sata Kothari:

Making appearances on the stages from Tokyo, Japan, to Carnegie Hall, Yoko Sata Kothari has been enjoying her performing career. Born in Tokyo, she began her career by winning the Northern Japan Classical Piano Competition at the age of eight. She then went on to collect top prizes in Japan, such as in the Machida Piano Competition and the Japan Young Pianist Award. Since moving to the United States, she has continued to earn awards for her performances, including second place in the Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International Competition, the Kathleen McGowan Piano Scholarship Award, a prize for her outstanding Bartok performance in the Ibla Grand Prize International Competition in Italy, and was chosen as a finalist in the Simone Belsky International Piano Competition. In May 2017, she won first place in the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition in New York and, as a result, was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall.

As an active chamber performer aside from her solo career, Ms. Kothari has performed with the Boca String Quartet, the Aibou Duo (a piano-violin duo), and currently is a member of the Trillium Piano Trio (piano, violin, and cello). Ms. Kothari holds a performing arts degree from the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. Her teachers include Takako Maeda, Miwako Tsukada, as well as Dr. Roberta Rust and Phillip Evans at the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.

Yoko Sata Kothari, Pianist

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