classical
1pm
$7 donation

Solo piano concert
Yoko Hagino (piano)

[program]
*Olivier Messiaen(1908-1992) Preludes (1930)
5. Les sons impalaplables du rêve…
7. Plainte calme
8. Un reflet dans le vent

*Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
Rain Tree Sketch for piano (1982)
Rain Tree Sketch 2 for piano (1992)
-in Memoriam Olivier Messiaen
*John McDonald
Piano Album 2005
Hagino Potpourri (2005)
Lyrical Tanka
Episode for Robert Ceeley
Commemorative offering to Hosea Hirata

*Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Preludes choral et Fugue (1884)
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Yoko Hagino

Yoko Hagino is a native of Japan, where she began her piano studies at the
age four. She has appeared as a concert Soloist with the Czech Symphony,
the University of Southern California Symphony,the Kyoto City symphony,
Ensemble Orchestra Kanazawa, and Longy Chamber Orchestra.
In 2000, Yoko Hagino was awarded top prize in the 9th Mozart Competition in
Japan and the second prize of the All Japan Selective Competition as a
result of her prize in the international Mozart Competition. 2005, she won
the second prize of Steinway Society in Massachusetts Piano Competition.
As a devoted chamber musician, she is the artistic director of the
acclaimed chamber group “Die Musiker Witz”, and as awarded a prized in the
9th chamber music competition in Japan in 1999. She also appeared live on
Suisse Romande Radio in Switzerland in 2003.
She received her BachelorĠs and MasterĠs degree form Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music. She earned an Artist Diploma from Longy
School of Music, where she studied with Victor Rosenbaum. This spring , she
finished her study in Graduate Performance Diploma Program at the Boston
Conservatory, where she studied with of Michael Lewin. She received the H.
Wilfred Churchill Scholarship.

[Contact]
Yoko Hagino (yhagino405@aol.com)