Noriko Kitano, Piano

Biography

Noriko Kitano began her study of piano in her native Osaka, Japan, as a private pupil of Tsieko Heki, an instructor at the Osaka Music College. She was invited to perform on radio productions at the age of nine and passed the state final examination for pianist at the College after official studies there from 1972 to 1976. Prof. Nobuko Yasada and private lessons from Tsuya Toyama and Max Egger in Tokio also contributed to her formation in Japan. Competition prizes including the
International Competition of French Piano Music in 1975 were followed by further studies at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold from 1976 to 1981. She majored in piano under Prof. Wilfried Kassebaum there and passed the qualifying examination in her field. Noriko Kitano
appears in concert and has served as a piano instructor in the music education program at the University of Munster/Germany since 1978.

Since 1997 Noriko Kitano takes an annual tour through the main halls of the largest cities in Japan and plays including the Kyoto Concert Hall, Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara, the Okayama Symphony Hall and the Tokyo International Forum. In October 2009 the upcoming Japan concert tour will include the concert premiere of Churs Piano Sonata No. 4 "Poltergeist-Sonate".

CDs:  Heinz Chur, Klaviersonaten 6-8 (MDGR 53052),  „Rhapsodie" with the Saxophonist M. Wordtmann (PCS 97237) and Günter Bergmann „Der Bogen" (GEN 03013). 

Here's the link of her kulturmanagement (in German):
http://www.kulturmanagement-kouznetzoff.de/index.php?page=noriko-kitano