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| The vibrant pianist Akiko Sasaki has
performed as soloist and chamber music artist at the Huston
Fine Art Center and the Richie Center at the Lamont School
of Music at the University of Denver.
She has won numerous awards including the Mu Phi Epsilon Bernstein
Crosman Scholarship for
Foreign Study and the Allied Arts Scholarship for Foreign Study
in London, the Allied Arts Sponsorship for Deeper Piano Studies,
the Lamont School of Music Concerto Competition, the University
of Denver’s Soloist and Collaborative Artist Provost
Performer Award, the University of Denver’s Outstanding
Musician Award, the Wells Music Yamaha Piano Competition, and
piano solo awards from the Winter Park Festival, the Mile High
Festival and the UNC Festival. She has also
attended the Colorado Boulder Festival, the Summit New York
Festival, and the Goppisberger Musik in Switzerland, Notes
at 9,000 Music Festival in Winter Park, Colorado, and the International
Keyboard Institute Festival in New York. Ms. Sasaki has performed
in master classes and workshops with Frederic Chiu, Vadim Monastirsky,
Eugene Skovorodnikov, Mariann Abraham, Andrew
Rangell, Fabio Bidini, and Victor Rosenbaum, in addition to
formal studies with Alice Rybak, Benjamin Kaplan, Jeffrey Cohen,
Miyoko Lotto, Julian Martin, and Jose Ramon Mendez. She holds
a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Denver and
a Master of Music Degree from the
Manhattan School of Music and is currently a member of the
Piano Faculty at the Larchmont Music Academy and the Merit
Music School. In April 2006, Ms. Sasaki made her New York debut
at Weill Recital Hall/Carnegie Hall as winner of the Artists
International Competition Special Presentation Award. |
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