Hiroko Inoue is a dazzling representative
of the next generation of classical performers
in the 21
st century, a talented musician who
gives recitals throughout the world. Born in the city
of Osaka (Japan), she studied at the Kyoto University
of the Arts before graduating with distinction from the Moscow
State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in piano (class of Professor Naum
Shtarkman) and organ (class of Professor Alexei Parshin) as well as
completing a postgraduate study as an organist and pianist. She
furthered her professional skills at the Prince Claus Conservatoire
(the Netherlands), studying on early instruments under Professor Theo
Jellema.
Hiroko Inoue has won first prizes at Japanese piano competitions
in Sakai and was a prize-winner
at the III International Maria Yudina Piano Competition (St
Petersburg, 2003, 1st prize). She has participated
in a master-class given by Peter Plani in Moscow (2003) and
Moscow International Organ Music Festivals. She has also been
a prize-winner at the International Marcello Galanti Organ Competition
(Italy, 2004, 3rd prize) and the Valery Kikta International
Organ Competition (Moscow, 2005, 1st prize).
Since 2006 Hiroko Inoue has been a soloist and organist
of the Kaliningrad Regional Philharmonic. She has prepared several
fundamental programmes for solo organ, among them monograph concerts
of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and French organ music. Moreover,
the organist regularly appears with the Chamber Orchestra
of the Kaliningrad Regional Philharmonic as well as together with
other musicians.
Hiroko Inoue has creatively links with renowned masters
of the spoken word, among them the Moscow theatre and film actors
Chulpan Khamatova (a stage version of the composition Where
Will the Sweet Path of Love Lead Us?) and Sergei Karyakin
(the musical mono-performance Jonathan Livingston Seagull).
Since 2007 Hiroko Inoue has regularly been introducing audiences
to the music of Japan, performing recital programmes and
collaborating with singers and musicians from South East Asia. Thanks
to this, Kaliningrad hosted its first ever performances of romances by
Kosaku Yamada, highlights from operas by Issey Tsukamoto, Michio Miyagi’s
The Sea in Spring (arranged for organ by Hiroko Inoue) and
other works by Japanese composers.
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