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Christine’s tour continues in China. On March 28th, we performed in Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts in Nanjing. It was a beautiful hall inside and the outside architecture was so dramatic!

Christine Walevska and I performed at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Tokyo. My heart is still filled with wonderful musical moments at this gorgeous hall. 
This concert was dedicated to raising funds for children who lost their parents to the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. I am grateful for the opportunity to make this small contribution through music. It was also heartwarming to see an elderly woman who told us that she attended Christine’s recital in Japan in 1974, and today she felt transported back to that time almost half a century ago!

Concert in Guangzhou, China!
Clarinetist Wang Tao and I performed at Guangzhou Opera House last night. The program was from our album, Spin 旋. The theme is dance and we played colorful pieces of Tchaikovsky, Lutosławski, Kreisler, D’rivera, Piazzolla and etc.. I smiled when the page turner was dancing to the music😊

It was a wonderful experience to perform Tchaikovsky’s third piano concerto with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Kazuyoshi Akiyama. 
The 3rd piano concerto is Tchaikovsky’s last composition and is rarely played. First conceived as the 7th symphony, it took a winding path to become a piano concerto. It is a mysterious work, but it’s filled with noble and proud Tchaikovsky sound. It was a gift to get to work on this rare piece with the amazing orchestra!! Magnificent orchestral sound still ringing in my ears.

Here I am back again in SHOFUSHA studio. This week I was recording with violist Toby Hoffman for an album including Schumann’s Märchenbilder, Milhaud’s Viola Sonata No.1, and Britten’s Lachrymae. Each piece has its unique beauty, and I cannot wait for the album to be released. It was a real treat to record alongside Toby Hoffman on a viola by Yu Iida.

I am excited that “Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op.47 & Brahms: Piano Quartet in g minor, Op.25” (Pierre Amoyal, violin; Yuko Shimizu Amoyal, viola; Nathaniel Rosen, cello; Akimi Fukuhara, piano) is finally released from SHOFUSHA label, as their very first album!