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SUMMARY:Rachel Naomi Kudo
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY\n\n\n\nWinner of the Johann Sebastian Bach Comp
 etition in Leipzig\, American pianist Rachel Naomi Kudo is captivating a
 udiences with her “heartfelt\, courageous and perfect playing” (Lübec
 ker Nachrichten) and as a “thrilling” artist with “the highest artis
 tic claim who demonstrates a perfection of technique and precision down to
  the smallest motivic detail” (Die Rheinpfalz).\n\n\n\n\nBorn in Washing
 ton\, D.C.\, to Japanese-Korean parents\, Rachel began her studies with Em
 ilio del Rosario at the Music Institute of Chicago. Shortly following her 
 debut with the Chicago and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras\, she was a fina
 list of the 15th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and winner of 
 the Gilmore Young Artist Award.\n\nRachel received the Arthur Rubinstein P
 rize and Chopin Prize under the tutelage of Yoheved Kaplinsky and Joseph K
 alichstein at The Juilliard School\, and continued her studies with Richar
 d Goode at Mannes College\, Gilbert Kalish at Stony Brook University\, and
  Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Institute. She received guidance from Robert
  Levin\, and Emanuel Ax and Sir András Schiff at Carnegie Hall’s Profes
 sional Training Workshops.\n\nMost recently\, Rachel was engaged as a live
  stream host for the 18th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw\, and
  presented the world premiere of Marc-André Hamelin’s Suite à l’anci
 enne\, which she commissioned with her funding from the Gilmore Piano Fest
 ival.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n\nBeethoven: Sonata No. 31 Op. 110\n\n
 Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat Major Op. 47\n\nChopin: Nocturne in c-shar
 p minor Op. Posth.\n\nChopin: Variations Brillante in B-Flat Major Op. 12 
 on "Je vends des Scapulaires" from Hérold's Ludovic\n\nBarber: Piano Sona
 ta Op. 26\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Past Events
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