Yu Kosuge

Yū Kosuge
小菅優
Yū Kosuge 小菅優
Born	May 24, 1983 (age 40); Tokyo
Genres	classical
Instrument(s)	piano

Yu Kosuge (小菅優, Kosuge Yū) (born 1983) is a Japanese classical pianist.

Kosuge was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1983. At the age of four, she entered Tokyo University of the Arts, having been selected under a programme aimed at providing specialist education to gifted children. At the age of nine, she made her orchestral debut, playing with the Tokyo New City Orchestra.^[1]

In 1993, she moved to Germany to study with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, and later with András Schiff. In 2003, she was awarded the S&R Washington Award Grand Prize from the S&R Foundation, which is awarded annually to the most talented young artist (in the fields of fine arts, music, drama, dance, photography and film), for contributions to US-Japanese relations.^[2]

She has made a number of well-received recordings. The German magazine

concertos (2006) and works by Schumann and Liszt (2007). A recording of her Carnegie Hall debut, in November 2005, was released by Sony. Reviewing the recital, the critic of CultureCatch praised the "beauty and great variety of Kosuge's tone production".^[3]

References

^ http://www.sandr.org/bio_kosuge.htm Biography on agent's website
^ http://www.sandr.org/awards_previous.html S&R Fourdation
^ http://www.culturecatch.com/music/yu_kosuge CultureCatch review by Steve Holtje

External links

[1] ttp://www.sandr.org/bio_kosuge.htm Biography on agent's website

[2] ttp://www.sandr.org/awards_previous.html S&R Fourdation

[3] ttp://www.culturecatch.com/music/yu_kosuge CultureCatch review by Steve Holtje

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