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Tuesday 5 November 2002, 8.00 p.m. City Hall Concert Hall

 

The Winners Series:

 

 

Ayako Uehara

Born in Takamatsu, Japan, she received her first music lessons at the Yamaha Music School and later on at the Yamaha Master Class. Ayako has participated in numerous competitions and received prizes in 2000 at the Sydney International Piano Competition, Australia and at the same year at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Japan.

In June 2002 Ayako won the first prize in the piano division of the 12th International Tchaikovsky Competition held in Moscow, the first woman ever to win this most prestigious prize. She has played with numerous orchestras and given recitals in, among other countries, Japan, Australia and Poland.

Programme

W.A. Mozart     12 variations in C major, K.265

R. Schumann      Sonata N?3 in F minor, Op. 14

Intermission

P. Tchaikovsky

                        Romance in F minor, Op. 5

                        2 pieces from Twelve Pieces of Moderate Difficulty, Op. 40

                        Elegiac Song, from Eighteen Pieces, Op. 72

                        Waltz-Scherzo in A major, Op. 7

D. Shostakovich    Sonata N?1 , Op 12

 

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