Fumiko Shiraga

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

1 Biography
2 Discography
3 References
4 External Links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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