Kyoko Hashimoto Piano Masterclass
- 10am
About this event:
- Category:
- Masterclass
- Event type:
- Free | In-person
- Admission:
- Free
- Location:
- Silk Street Music Hall
Event information
Guildhall welcomes pianist Kyoko Hashimoto for a piano masterclass (ahead of her chamber music masterclass at 2pm).
Legendary pianist and teacher Gyögy Sebök described Kyoko Hashimoto's “extraordinary musical talent” as “one of the finest of her generation”.
Kyoko Hashimoto was born in Tokyo and began to study the piano at the age of three. After graduating from the Toho-Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, she studied at the International Menuhin Music Academy, Indiana University and the Juilliard School. She received full scholarships from the Menuhin Academy and the Juilliard School.
She has been regularly performing throughout the world, so far in more than 30 countries, in venues including Wigmore Hall in London, the Lincoln Center and the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
She is Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Piano Area at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and was on the piano faculty and the chamber music faculty of the Utrecht Conservatory in Holland for 12 years.
Performers & repertoire
Schumann Humoresque, op 20
Yu-Chieh Lin piano
Schumann Carnaval, op 9
Siyu Sun piano
Prokofiev Sonata no 6 in A major, op 82
Luke Lally Maguire piano
Venue information
Silk Street Theatre, Music Hall and Lecture Recital Room are located in the main Guildhall School building on Silk Street and for Barbican produced events the venue can also be accessed from the Barbican if you exit via the doors next to Barbican Kitchen on Level G.
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Silk Street
Barbican
EC2Y 8DT
