Rachel Kudo, Piano

Biography

Winner of the Gilmore Young Artist Award, pianist Rachel Kudo made her orchestral debut at age sixteen performing with the Fort Worth and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. Other performances include at Chopin’s birth house “Zelazowa Wola,” the Royal Castle in Poland, Salle Cortot in Paris, Musikverein in Vienna, Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel, Strathmore Mansion in Washington D.C., Tivoli International Festival in Denmark, Bergen International Festival in Norway, Fazioli Concert Hall in Italy, Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, and New York’s Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.

Ms. Kudo is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she received the Chopin Prize, Arthur Rubinstein Prize, Juilliard/Sanders/Tel Aviv Museum Recital Prize, Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, and was two-time winner of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. She has been invited to Carnegie Hall’s Professional Training Workshops on two occasions, working with pianists Emanuel Ax and Sir Andras Schiff.

Born in Washington D.C. to Japanese-Korean parents, Ms. Kudo began studying piano at age four with Emilio del Rosario. She currently works with Leon Fleisher, and has studied with Kum-Sing Lee, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Joseph Kalichstein, Richard Goode, and Gilbert Kalish.