Saori Sarina Ohno

Saori Sarina Ohno (born 1970),pianist, was born in Tokyo, Japan and was raised in Germany.

Education

She began playing the piano at the age of four. At sixteen, she entered the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany, as a student of Lieselotte Gierth and Gerd Lohmeyer. After receiving her Masters Degree, she continued her studies at Indiana University where she received an Artist Diploma as a student of Menahem Pressler. She also obtained a Graduate Chamber Music Diploma from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In 2005, she received her doctoral degree from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her doctoral dissertation was titled "The Piano Chamber Music of Maurice Ravel." Additionally, she studied with Rita Sloan, Joseph Kalichstein and Lev Natochenny.

Awards

She was the winner of the German National Youth Competition "Jugend Musiziert" in 1986, the 1992 E. Nakamichi Piano Competition in Aspen, the 1994 Indiana University Piano Competition and won top prizes at the Fischoff and Coleman Chamber Music Competitions.

tyle

She concertizes extensively as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician in Europe, the United States, Japan and Taiwan.

She is on the faculty of Shobi University and Tokyo Music and Media Arts Shobi.

External links

* [http://www.sohnomusic.com Saori Sarina Ohno's website]