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Kawashima Motoi

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Motoi Kawashima ProfileDer Pianist mit den goldenen Handen"(Pianist with golden hands)Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung(West German newspaper)Born in Okayama, Japan, Kawashima began to play the piano and compose in earnest at age 10. After graduating at the top of his class from Tokyo College of Music with a special scholarship for piano performance, he won the third prize in the piano section of the Japan Music Competition, and after finishing the graduate school at the top of his class, he studied at the Weimar "Franz Liszt" Music University in Germany as a Rohm Music Foundation scholarship student, and also studied at the Berlin University of the Arts as a Japanese Government Overseas He also studied at the Graduate School of the Berlin University of the Arts as a trainee artist from the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and completed the Konzertexamen program, receiving the German National Performer's Certificate.Winner of numerous international competitions [Winner of the 10th Schubert International Piano Competition (Dortmund, Germany) / Winner of the Scriabin International Piano Competition / 2nd Prize (without 1st Prize) at the International Piano Competition of the City of Marsala / 2nd Prize at the Alicia de Larrocha International Piano Competition 2nd Prize at the Artur Schnabel International Piano Competition / 3rd Prize at the International Piano Competition of the Republic of San Marino / Best Prize (2nd without 1st Prize) at the Giuliano Pekar Prize International Piano Competition / Diploma Prize at the Busoni International Piano Competition] Since 2007, she has been a performer in Berlin, Germany. Obtained a visa in Berlin, Germany, and began full-scale performance activities. She performs about 40 concerts and recitals a year, including recitals throughout Europe, concerts with orchestras, and international music festivals. In 2006, as a prize of the competition, she recorded and released her debut CD "Memorial to the Winner of the Schubert International Piano Competition" in Germany, which was highly acclaimed in European newspapers. She is a member of the "Schubert International Piano Competition" series (Toppan Hall).Also released were "Wanderer Fantasy" in 2008 and "Firebird - Ballet Transcriptions" in 2011. Other releases include "Rachmaninoff & Bridge Cello Sonatas" with Martin Stanzerite and "Richard Strauss & Dvořák Lieder" with soprano Sachiko Kawashima. He has performed with the Berliner Symphoniker, Hohenfels Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Dortmund Orchestra, Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, Hof Symphony Orchestra, Grosseto Symphony Orchestra, Romanian National Bacau Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo College of Music Orchestra, College Opera House Orchestra, Kammerphilharmonie Hiroshima, and Okayama Philharmonic Orchestra. Studied piano with Tamiki Miyake, Takashi Hironaka, Seizo Higashi, Minoru Nojima, Osamu Yanai, Lazar Bellman, E. Lapitskaya, R.D. Ahrens, and in master courses with A. Weissenberg and Paul-Badura Skoda. She received the Okayama Art and Culture Award Grand Prix and the Marsen Culture Award.In March 2012, he returned to Japan after 14 years of living in Germany. He is currently an associate professor of piano at Tokyo College of Music. (2/2) Camerata Tokyo