Aimi Kobayashi

Aimi Kobayashi (Japanese小林 爱 実Kobayashi Aimi; born September 23, 1995 Ube ) is a classical pianist who now lives in Tokyo.

Life

At the age of three she began to play the piano.

2004 with the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, she had her concert debut in 2005 and their international in La Salle Cortot at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, which was broadcast in parts of Europe on La Chaîne Info, and in Japan on Tokyo MX. She subsequently appeared three times at Carnegie Hall ( 2005, 2006 and 2008). In Moscow in 2006, she played internationally respected, in a concert conducted by Vladimir Spivakov Theodorowitsch concert. In 2008, she starred again with him and his Virtuoso Orchestra in Moscow and St. Petersburg and gave a concert with the Filharmonia Krakowska in Krakow.

National she played in March 2007 with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at the Suntory Hall in April 2007 and had the Acros Fukuoka her first concert. In 2009, she appeared with violinist Anastasia Tschebotarewa in the Nikkei Hall and with the Tokyo New City Orchestra in the Tōkyō Opera City Concert Hall.

On February 10, 2010 their debut album was released with the name Aimi Kobayashi Debut! (小林 愛実 デビュー! ) By EMI Classics. January 2011, she has her first movie appearance in the film Nemuri Yusurika (ネムリユスリカ), who came to the cinemas in November and whose piano pieces they played. Their second album Netsujō (热情) was published on March 9, 2011.

On 3 April 2011, she performed at Carnegie Hall with the Japanese music festival with Seiji Ozawa.

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From 2001 to 2004 she won four times in a row PTNA Piano Competition. In 2003, she won the Hupfer Memorial Piano Concours of Tosu and 2004, the 5th International Chopin Piano Competition in Asia. Followed in 2005 by the 1st place in the Zen Nippon Ongaku Gakusei Concours (全日本 学生 音楽 コンクール, dt " All- Japanese Students Music Competition " ), where she was the first fourth year in the final of their category since the 59- year anniversary of the price. This was followed by the Aiko Iguchi Prize, Nomura Prize, Tsuzuki Music Prize and the Mainichi Shimbun Shogakusei price.

In addition, three times won the Eiko Bunka - shō (栄 光 文化 赏, dt " shiny Glory Culture Prize ") of Yamaguchi Prefecture.