Fujita Piano Trio

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Title

Concert

About the Event

The Fujita Piano Trio, all sisters from Japan, have been playing together since early childhood. They made an acclaimed debut in this country at Wigmore Hall in 1999, since when they have performed in major concert venues all over the world.

Event Type

Community

Disciplines

Music

Telephone

01823 400122

Email

david.patterson@safe-mail.net

Booking Contact

Nikki Pike

01823 400200

nikki.pike@dragonnet.co.uk

Booking Info

£8-£16 per ticket. Reductions for students and children.

Age Info

For all the family

Opening Times

2009-09-12 00:00:00	2009-09-13 00:00:00	2009-09-14 00:00:00	2009-09-15 00:00:00	2009-09-16 00:00:00	2009-09-17 00:00:00	2009-09-18 00:00:00	2009-09-19 00:00:00	2009-09-20 00:00:00
Closed	Closed	Closed	Closed	Closed	Closed	Closed	2009-09-19 20:00:00 - 2009-09-19 22:00:00	Closed

Further Info

The Fujita sisters from Japan have been playing chamber music together since early childhood. They made a highly acclaimed debut at the Wigmore Hall in March 1999 and they were invited to give a Purcell Room recital in June 2000 by the Kirckman Concert Society. Also in June, they made a successful debut at Oji Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Concert engagements have taken the Trio to Canada, France, Italy, Ireland, Romania, Egypt, Morocco and Turkey, and they have won numerous awards and prizes, both as a Trio and individually. Arisa won the Audi Junior Musician Competition when she was only fifteen years old, Honoka won all the cello prizes at the Guildhall School, and Megumi won Fourth Prize at the Montreal International Piano Competition.

Arisa studied with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music, London (where she now teaches), Honoka studied at the Guildhall School with Jennifer Ward Clarke and Raphael Wallfisch, where the Trio also received coaching from the Takacs Quartet. Megumi studied at the Menuhin School with Louis Kentner, Simon Nicholls and Vlado Perlemuter and continued her studies at the Royal College of Music with Irina Zaritskaya. They won the Chamber Music Prize at the Guildhall School in 1994.

The sisters have performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto numerous times with orchestras including the G.Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania) and the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra in venues including the Barbican Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Atheneum Hall (Bucharest). They have recently toured Loire, France with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire. Their performance of the Triple Concerto with the Romanian National Radio Orchestra at the Radio Hall, Bucharest was broadcast live by national television and radio.

In England, the Trio has performed at Barbican Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, St.Martin-in-the-Fields, Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, and at the Exeter, King's Lynn, and Salisbury Festival. From 1994, the Trio was invited to perform at the Brasov International Chamber Music Festival in Romania for three consecutive years. In 1998, the Japan Foundation organised a concert tour for the Fujita Trio to Casablanca, Rabat (Morocco), Rome, Cairo and Alexandria (Egypt).

The Trio made a debut recording of chamber music by the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu for ASV Records, which was released in 2001 with a worldwide critical acclaim, to coincide with concerts at the Wigmore Hall - as part of the Japan 2001 Festival. The Trio has also recorded the Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich No.1 and No.2, Ravel, Schubert No.1 and No.2 Piano Trios with the Swedish label Intim Musik. Arisa has released a CD of Ysaye 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin Op. 27, and Megumi, Rachmaninov 24 Preludes (released to coincide with her 2005 Wigmore Hall Recital).

2006 saw a return visit to the Wigmore Hall Sunday Coffee concert series and a performance of Beethoven Triple Concerto in Japan with Kyoto Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 2007, awarded the Kyoto Aoyama Barocksaal Prize for their recital in Kyoto, Japan.

Future engagements include concerts in Sweden and throughout the UK.