Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka

Kimiko Douglass - Ishizaka ( born December 4, 1976 in Bonn ) is a German - Japanese pianist and former German Vice Champion in Powerlifting and Weightlifting. Douglass - Ishizaka acquired in May 2012 wider prominence when they released their recording of the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach under a CC Zero license public domain.

Life

Pianist

Douglass - Ishizaka was already at the age of four years of piano lessons from her mother. As of 1995, she attended the Academy of Music and Dance Cologne, where she graduated in 2000 with the highest rating. Douglass - Ishizaka visited among other Masterclasses of Peter Feuchtwanger, Karl -Heinz Kammerling and the Alban Berg Quartet.

In 1988 she gave her debut concert in Tokyo. Subsequently, she appeared in Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and the United States. As a soloist she has performed with a number of known orchestras, including the Orchestra of the Beethoven Hall in Bonn, the Classical Philharmonic and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra in Michigan.

In 2012, she gained wider prominence when they released the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach in the public domain under a CC - Zero license.

Athlete

In 2006, Douglass - Ishizaka was powerlifting with the disciplines of bench press, squats and deadlifts in the class up to 82.5 kg German Vice-Champion. Then she turned to weightlifting, where she came in early 2008 when ELEIKO Women's Grand Prix in Niederöblarn, Austria, in the category up to 63 kg fifth.