Natsuki Fukasawa Piano Recital, May 2
by Kathleen McCoy |
Friday, May 2, 7:30 p.m. Fine Arts Building, Room 150
The UAA Department of Music proudly announces the last event of the 2013-14 academic year, Natsuki Fukasawa Piano Recital: A Concert of Great Romantics. Selections include pieces by the romantic masters: Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Godowsky. Free parking is available.
Natsuko Fukasawa will play at UAA May 2, 2014. Photo by George Howard.
Steinway Artist Natsuki Fukasawa's music career has taken her throughout the U.S. as well as to Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, Australia, Brazil, Japan and China, performing at such venues as Carnegie Hall and Copenhagen's Tivoli Concert Hall. Fukasawa has won many accolades and international prizes, including rave reviews in Strad and Fanfare magazines and the Best Chamber Music Recording of the Year from the Danish Music Awards. In 2012, Fukasawa was added to the distinguished roster of International Steinway Artists.
Fukasawa serves on the artist faculty of the Orfeo Music Festival in the Italian Alps, Talis Festival & Academy in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and the Calcap Chamber Music Workshop in Sacramento. She has taught at California State University Sacramento, Saint Mary's College of Moraga and the University of the Pacific. She also enjoys nurturing young talents in her own private studio.
She began studying piano early with her mother Takako Fukasawa and her main teachers were Fumiko Ishikawa, Mark Richman, Martin Canin, Jan Panenka, Anne Koscielny, Ferenc Rados and violist Tim Frederiksen. She studied at the Prague Academy of Music as a Fulbright Scholarship recipient and received a Performer's Certificate Degree. She also earned her degrees from New York's Juilliard School and University of Maryland.
Natsuki Fukasawa has recorded for the Classico and Da Capo labels and her career is noted in the World of Women in Classical Music and Who's Who in America. Join us for an evening of beautiful music. Tickets are $19 for the general public, $16 for non-UAA students, seniors and military, and $8 for UAA students. Buy yours today at UAATtix.com or call (907) 786-4TIX.
For more information, contact Timothy Smith at (907) 786-1524 or tcsmith@uaa.alaska.edu.
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