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Yoko Kida
Yoko Kida started piano and solfége at the age of five at the Toho School of Music. She won several prizes including the Third Prize of the Piano Teachers National Association (PTNA) Competition in Japan. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where she studied with Kenji Watanabe. During her junior year, she studied with the late Halina Czerny-Stefanska, a leading expert on Chopin and one of the judges for the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland. After graduation she moved to the United States and earned her Master of Music degree and Graduate Performance Diploma, both with distinction, from the Longy School of Music. While studying with Victor Rosenbaum at Longy, she frequently performed solo and chamber music, and won the honor’s competition and the concerto competition. She is an active performer both in Japan and the United States, also has performed in Europe, South America and China. She has collaborated with renowned artists such as Charles Castleman, Barbara Barber, Jonathan Cohler, Ronald van Spaendonck and Charles Neidich. Her solo and chamber music appearances include the concert series at Boston College, Lyrica Boston, Music on Marlborough, Frederik Piano Collection and the Webster Concert Series in New Hampshire. Her collaboration with renowned clarinetists has led her to perform at the International Wood Wind Festival 2005 in Boston, the International Clarinet Festival in Xi’an, China, as well as the first Woodwind Festival in Venezuela. In 2005 she was awarded the Grant-in-Aid Award of the St. Botolph Club Foundation in Boston, as “a young emerging artist in New England”. The grant made it possible for her to travel to Europe, where she participated in the five-week summer course, Franz-Schubert-Institute in Austria. At the institute she won a full scholarship based on a recommendation by Elly Ameling, and studied the German Lied intensively with great masters such as Elly Ameling, Rudolf Jansen, and Helmut Deutsch. In September 2006 she started her doctoral study in collaborative piano with Irma Vallecillo at the New England Conservatory. This summer she goes back to the Franz-Schubert-Institut for further study on German Lied.
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