Fumiko Shiraga

Fumiko Shiraga

Fumiko Shiraga (Tokyo, 1967) is a Japanese pianist, a revelation in Germany in the late 1990s.

Biography

She began studying piano in her native Tokyo before she was four years old, and when she was six her family moved to Germany. She studied in Essen, Detmold and Hannover, where she lives currently. She studied piano with Detlef Kraus, Friedrich Wilhelm Schnurr, Malgorzata Bator and Vladimir Krainev and graduated in 1995 with the highest honors.

Fumiko Shiraga has performed as a solo artist and with orchestras, as well as with chamber music ensembles. She has been instrumental in the revival of the transcriptions (for flute, violin, violoncello and piano), by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, of some of the Mozart piano concertos. She recorded the two Piano Concertos by Chopin in a piano and string quintet transcription (1997) and then, in 2001 and in a similar arrangement, she recorded Beethoven's First and Second piano concertos, as well as piano music by Bruckner, including a piano arrangement of his seventh symphony.

Discography

* Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Chamber version)
*: Fumiko Shiraga - piano
*: Orchestra/Ensemble: The Bremen String Soloists

* Bruckner: Piano Works
*: Fumiko Shiraga - piano

* Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, Chamber version
*: Fumiko Shiraga - piano
*: Jan-Ingwe Haukas - double bass
*: Orchestra/Ensemble: Yggdrasil Quartet

* Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 10 and 24 (arr. Hummel for chamber ensemble)
*: Fumiko Shiraga - piano
*: Henrik Wiese - flute
*: Peter Clemente - violin
*: Tibor Bényi - cello

* Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 25 (arr. Hummel for chamber ensemble)
*: Fumiko Shiraga - piano
*: Henrik Wiese - flute
*: Peter Clemente - violin
*: Tibor Bényi - cello

* Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18 / Symphony No. 40 (arr. Hummel for chamber ensemble)
*: Fumiko Shiraga - piano
*: Henrik Wiese - flute
*: Peter Clemente - violin
*: Tibor Bényi - cello

* Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 26 and 22 (arr. Hummel for chamber ensemble)
*: Fumiko Shiraga - piano
*: Henrik Wiese - flute
*: Peter Clemente - violin
*: Tibor Bényi - cello

References

External Links

Fumiko Shiraga Biography: http://www.answers.com/topic/fumiko-shiraga?cat=technology

BIS records: http://www.bis.se/index.php?op=people&pID=2316


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