Kyoko Hashimoto piano, Manzoh Ito violin duo recital

Since their fateful encounter in 2015, Kyoko Hashimoto, a legendary international pianist who has been active in the United States and Europe since 1978 and is currently a professor of piano at McGill University, Canada's most elite university, and the up-and-coming violinist Manzoh Ito, who has been remarkably active in the world of music, have traveled together twice to Kirchberg International Music Festival in Germany and last year to Montreal, Canada. Ito's 10-year, 57,000-km journey of study culminated in this recital, her fourth year in Opera City.
The concert will be full of highlights. Mozart, which is especially difficult for piano, R. Strauss with a new interpretation different from Ito's CDs, and Bartók, which has been warming up to him. This is the first performance in Japan by the master and disciple, who have already performed in Germany and Canada. Please look forward to the real pleasure of these rich sonatas. This concert has been selected as a Japan Federation of Musicians' Associations/Yamada Yasuko Encouragement and Support Concert.