Extractions: Okashiro's personal home page King Records (Japanese only) An artist who has gained worldwide acclaim for interpretative and expressive skills which reveal an exciting and diverse musical palette of color and inventiveness, pianist Chitose Okashiro appears in recitals, chamber and concerto performances throughout Japan, The United States, Canada and South America. Chitose Okashiro is a regular of mainstay classical stations WQXR, WNYC and WBAI New York, KDFC and KUSF San Francisco, KKGO and KUSC Los Angeles, KING Seattle, KOPB Portland, WFMT, WHPK and WNIB Chicago and NHK FM Japan. Featured on Tokyo Metropolitan TV and NHK Satellite TV during broadcasts of recitals and concerto performances throughout Japan, the constant exposure helped establish a strong media presence for her international career. Miss Okashiro records exclusively for the Pro Piano Records label. Her sixth release is an exciting all Wagner Piano Transcription recording. Immediately prior was her critically acclaimed all Scriabin CD featuring the world premiere recording of "The Poem of Ecstasy". This was a two piano version transcribed by Conus-Okashiro. It used an "over dub multi-track recording technique" allowing Miss Okashiro to play both piano parts (something never before attempted), to achieve a more colorful piano sound throughout the entirety of the instrument's vast harmonic register.
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Extractions: johnc@soundstage.com Musical Performance Recording Quality Overall Enjoyment Chitose Okashiro succeeds quite nicely, thank you. Playing the transcriptions of Kocsis ("Einleitung" from Tristan and Islode ), Moszkowski ("Isoldens Tad" from Tristan ... and "Der Venusberg" from Tannhauser ) and Brassin ("Der Ritt der Walkuren," "Feuerzauber" and "Sigmunds Liebesgesang" from Der Ring des Nibelungen ), Ms. Okashiro infuses these pieces with all the passion and expression that Wagner must have had in mind when he wrote them. Despite the fact that this recording is of solo piano, one can almost close one's eyes and see the action on the stage. Ms. Okashiro uses all of the piano's expressiveness, power and delicacy to bring these pieces to life. For example, "Isoldens Tod" ("Isolde's Death") may very well be one of, if not the, most well-known pieces in the Wagnerian opus. Ms. Okashiro's playing of the Moskowski transcription neither eviscerates the piece nor over-embellishes it. It’s obvious that she understands the work completely. But her familiarity with Wagner is only one of this disc's qualities that commands our attention. The other is the sound. Nonetheless, both musically and sonically, this is a disc that can hold its own in the exalted company of original recordings of full orchestral versions of the pieces. Pro Piano and Chitose Okashiro have created a winner here.
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Extractions: Chitose Okashiro, pianist An artist who has gained worldwide acclaim for interpretative and expressive skills that reveal an exciting and diverse musical palette of color and inventiveness, pianist Chitose Okashiro appears in recitals, chamber and concerto performances throughout Japan, The United States, Canada, Europe and South America. She is active not only as a recording and performing pianist, but also as a superlative record producer. Her focus as a producer is to recognize a performer's musical personality with care and sensitivity, then to find a way of capturing and reproducing that personality as faithfully and passionately as possible. Such stimulating experience lends her as an introspective opportunity to examine herself, the pianist, through the eyes of her own self, the producer. Thereby her various activities nourish themselves from the musical intellect which resides within her, doing their part to help her grow as a more complete and well-rounded artist.
NPR JAPANESE PIANIST CHITOSE Japanese pianist chitose okashiro (chihTOH-say oh-kah-SHE-roh) plays the Piano Sonata No. 16 in B-flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Recorded September 18th on the campus of Wake Forest University http://rdre1.inktomi.com/click?u=http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=10
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Extractions: Sept. 3, 1998 Wake Forest University's 1998-99 Secrest Artists Series will open Friday, Sept. 18, with Chitose Okashiro, a Japanese-born pianist who has recently received accolades for her recordings of music by the Russian composer Scriabin. Okashiro will perform at 8 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall. Her program will include Mozart's "Sonata in B-flat Major," preludes by Claude Debussy and etudes by Scriabin. She will conclude the program with symphonic etudes by Robert Schumann. The New York Times described Okashiro as "an appealing colorist," while a reviewer from the American Record Guide wrote, "I'm still innocent enough to sit in open-mouthed awe at something like Chitose Okashiro's consummate technical mastery." A graduate of The Juilliard School and The Manhattan School of Music, Okashiro records exclusively for Pro Piano Records. She is currently at work on her sixth release, which features piano transcriptions of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" and two other operas. Okashiro was the 1993 Pro Piano Artist of the Year and a major prize-winner at the 1993 International Chopin Competition. She is known for her excellence as a recording artist, a performer and a record producer.
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Extractions: www.propiano.com P ro Piano Records is part of a company which rents concert instruments, holds a recital series, and manages a group of outstanding classical artists. Their CD logo gives two possible meanings to their PPR logo: Pro Piano Records is obvious, but in small print next to their name is Pianist's Perspective Recording . It is this standard which makes this label so attractive to the lover of audiophile classical piano music. After listening to 15 of their CDs, I can say that a fair and accurate assessment of CDs is simple: excellent performance and sound. These recordings sparkle because of the musicians and because of the care with which Pro Piano records masters and manufactures them. My first taste of this label was the Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique" piano transcription by Walter Niemann performed by Chitose Okashiro reviewed separately on this site and can be seen by clicking here [Pro Piano Records PPR224530]. It was a superb recording - Okashiro is a brilliant and emotionally appealing pianist and the CD possessed excellent acoustical qualities.
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Extractions: www.propiano.com T ranscribing music composed for other instruments or for ensembles of instruments for the piano has been around for a long time. One of the most famous transcribers, Johann Sebastian Bach, transcribed a number of concerti by Vivaldi for organ as well as the works of others and his own from one instrument or ensemble to another. This kind of borrowing and rewriting maintained some popularity for the next few centuries after Bach. In the late 19 th and the early 20 th century, transcriptions for piano became very popular. This period, a golden age of pianism, established the piano as a kind of precursor to the phonograph. Having a piano in the parlor was almost a necessity for admission to the genteel middle class. It was also a way of bringing culture into the home. For good reason, too was the piano the instrument of choice. The piano had huge advantages over other instruments. Only one instrument allowed a performer to cover most of the notes any orchestra could play. It also lent itself to reasonable sound no matter how much of a neophyte the pianist might be. With improvements to the action, it became capable of the very loud sound we know today, so that it also became a fixture in schools, town halls, taverns and church halls. During this period, there were many accomplished pianists. As a result, transcribing great symphonic works for piano became a way of spreading symphonic music throughout the pre-phonograph world without the expense of a full orchestra. Many of these transcriptions are still being played. One example is particularly famous: Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's ninth symphony, which is still performed. Now, a new generation of piano virtuosi, such as Stephen Hough, Arcadi Volodos and Marc-André Hamelin have dug through the archives and resurrected a number of great transcriptions by such composers as Busoni and Rachmaninoff. Hamelin, Volodos and others are also creating their own brilliant transcriptions.
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Extractions: We apologize for any inconvenience. Unity Concerts Home Page History 2001-2002 Season Artist Biographies Who We Are Credits Updated 10/31/01 81st Anniversary Season Unity Concerts proudly presents its 2001-2002 season. Click the concert date for full details: September 23, Les Violons du Roy / La Chapelle de Quebec, Bernard Labadie, conductor (click to enlarge photo) Unity Concerts is proud to present Canada's internationally renowned ensemble, Les Violons du Roy , in a gala performance to celebrate the Quebec New York Festival. In the sixteen years since its founding, Les Violons du Roy has established itself internationally as one of the leading interpreters on modern instruments of the Baroque and Classical repertoire. Their performances have been recognized worldwide for elegant interpretations and impeccable technique. The Mozart
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