About this Event
proudly presents pianist Michiko Shimanuki, with a programme showcasing contemporary classical music by living women composers, self-composed works, and more!
Programme
Michiko Shimanuki
- Dead Still (2015)
- Another Life (2015)
- Images of Fantasy (2015)
Avril Anderson - A Story Untold (1997)
Michiko Shimanuki
- Climbing Roses (2018)
- December Rose (2021)
Karen Tanaka - Lavender Field
Rachmaninoff
- Daisies Op.38, No.3
- Prelude Op.32, No.5
Michiko Shimanuki - Prologue-Prelude and Sarabande from Piano Suite (2010/2017)
Ravel - Menuet sur le nom de Haydn
Michiko Shimanuki - Aries, Leo Minor and Libra (2023)
Hilda Paredes - Las estrellas
Diana Burrell - Constellations
Michiko Shimanuki studied piano with the late Dame Fanny Waterman, the late Kendall Taylor CBE, Aquiles Delle-Vigne and other prominent pianists in Europe and Japan. She spent her twenties giving concerts and then went on to study composition.
She was awarded a full scholarship to study with Betsy Jolas at the master class at the Academie de Musicale de Villecroze in 2003 and completed her Ph.D. in Composition at King’s College London in 2011. Since 2004 Michiko’s music has been performed by the London New Wind Ensemble, Ian Mitchell, Ellie Blackshaw, David Sutton Anderson, Catriona Scott, other professional soloists and ensembles and herself in London, Hertfordshire, Brighton, at St George’s Bristol. The London New Wind Ensemble have premiered Michiko’s works which range from pieces for solo instrument (oboe, bass clarinet, violin and piano), duo, woodwind trios to woodwind and string ensembles since 2006. Michiko has had her music broadcast on radio stations specializing in women composers and contemporary music in the UK, USA and the Netherlands since 2014. One of her compositions was released by Ablaze Records USA, Millennial Masters Vol. 5 in January 2015.
Michiko has resumed her performing activity since 2011 and has given concerts in London, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire and Brighton. In 2018 Michiko gave a recital of contemporary music at the Borough New Music in London including a premiere of a piece specially composed for her by Barry Mills and works by composers such as Diana Burrell, Edwin Roxburgh and Poul Ruders. In 2019 she celebrated Barry Mills and John Hawkins’ 70th Birthday performing their music in London, Hertfordshire and Brighton.
During the pandemic Michiko’s music, A Beautiful Creature for solo bass clarinet was premiered and live streamed on Youtube in 2020 and in 2021 a piano solo piece called December Rose was premiered in London. In October 2021 Michiko recorded Winter Images composed by Barry Mills for her for Claudio Records, and the album which is also called WINTER IMAGES was released in August 2023. Michiko also recorded the piece called Three Pieces for Michiko written by Barry Mills, which she premiered at St. Bride’s London in 2022. Michiko’s own piano pieces, Dead Still, Another Life and Climbing Roses were recorded by the Chiaro Audio in 2020 and were broadcast on Radio Monalisa in the Netherlands in December 2021.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Westminster Music Library, 35 Saint Martin's Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
