Saori Sarina Ohno

Saori Ōno (Japanese多 纱 于 里, Ōno Saori; * 1970 in the prefecture of Tokyo ) is a Japanese pianist.

Life

In 1972, she moved with her parents to Germany, where she began playing the piano at age four.

She studied first at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart with Lieselotte Gierth and Gerd Lohmeyer. After the completion of postgraduate studies she continued her studies in the United States. Initially she studied with Menahem Pressler at Indiana University in Bloomington, where she received an Artist Diploma. She then studied at the Institute of Chamber Music at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. In 2005, she received her doctorate (Doctor of Musical Arts ) from the City University of New York. Her thesis was titled " The Piano Chamber Music of Maurice Ravel. " She also studied several times at the Aspen Music Festival and School with Rita Sloan and Joseph Kalichstein, and has studied in New York with Lev Natochenny.

Saori Ohno won in 1986 the first prize of the federal competition " Young Musicians, " and in 1992 she won the E. Nakamichi Piano Competition in Aspen, 1994 Indiana University Piano Competition and was a prizewinner at the Fischoff and Coleman chamber music competitions.

She performs in Europe, the United States, Japan and Taiwan as soloist and chamber musician.

Since 2007 she has taught at the Shobi Gakuen Daigaku in Saitama Prefecture and at the Shobi Music College

In 2010, their first CD was released ( WWCC - 7662 ).