171 Shiori Kuwahara, Piano Shiori Kuwahara was the Silver Medalist at the 16th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, 2021. Born in Japan (1995), she began studying the piano at the age of four. In her teens, she was a prize winner of all three major domestic competitions. In recent years, she won prizes at several international competitions, such as Maria Canals (Barcelona, Spain) Gian Battista Viotti (Vercelli, Italy), and Ferruccio Busoni (Bolzano, Italy). She graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with the highest award, studying under Prof. Kei Itoh. She received the Norio Ohga award, Ataka award, Ikuo Hirayama Culture & the Arts award, and Mitsubishi Estate award. Since performing at the Kioi Hall in Tokyo, “Kioi Up & Coming Artists” in 2017, Shiori has been playing recitals across the country, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall (Tokyo), Suginami Public Hall (Tokyo), Kawai Omotesando (Tokyo), and Munetsugu Hall (Nagoya). She has also been invited by the Young Prague international music festival to perform in Prague and Tokyo. As a soloist, Kuwahara has played with all major Japanese orchestras and conductors. She has performed under the baton of Alexander Lazarev, Ken Takaseki, Masahiko Enkoji, Naohiro Totsuka, Norichika Iimori, Takeshi Ooi, Toshiaki Umeda, Chikara Iwamura and Kazumasa Watanabe and at all the major concert halls in Japan. Shiori Kuwahara is currently studying for Soloist Master's at the University of the Arts in Berlin, under Prof. Klaus Hellwig. She is a scholarship recipient of Yamaha Music Foundation, Munetsugu Tokuji Fund, Aoyama Music Foundation, Fukuda Yasuko Fund, and the 44th Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation. Noriko Ogawa, Piano Noriko Ogawa has achieved considerable renown throughout the world since her success at the Leeds International Piano Competition. Noriko’s “ravishingly poetic playing” (Telegraph) sets her apart from her contemporaries and acclaim for her complete Debussy series with BIS Records, confirms her as a fine Debussy specialist. As an exclusive recording artist for BIS Records, Noriko’s latest recording is of solo music by Eric Satie. Ranging from Mozart, Rachmaninov and Debussy to contemporary composers including Tcherepnin, Holmboe and Kanno, Noriko boasts a prolific catalogue of over 30 albums. Noriko appears with all the major European, Japanese and US orchestras including the Polish National Radio Symphony, Tchaikovsky Symphony of Moscow Radio, BBC Philharmonic, Czech National Symphony, St. Petersburg Symphony, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She is a renowned recitalist and chamber musician, performing with artists such as Evelyn Glennie. In 2001 Noriko established a piano duo with Kathryn Stott, performing Malcolm Arnold’s Concerto for Two Pianos at the 2013 BBC Proms. Noriko was appointed as the Chairperson of the Jury for Japan’s prestigious 10th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in 2018 and elected to the board of the World Federation of International Music Competitions the same year. Noriko is a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as well as guest educator at the Royal College of Music, Yamaha Masterclass from Tokyo to Seoul, Chetham’s International Piano Summer School Opening Event
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