Not only Chopin: Kyohei Sorita
2 Prize / 18th Chopin Piano Competition Warsaw
Born on 1 September 1994 in Tokyo. He is currently a student of Piotr Paleczny at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, having studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Mikhail Voskresensky.
He has worked with such ensembles as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, and Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
He has won first prize and the audience prize in the Japan Music Competition (2012) and first prize ex aequo in the Cantù International Piano and Orchestra Competition (2015). In 2020, he made his debut at the Grosser Musikvereinssaal in Vienna.
photo: Wojciech Grzędziński/NIFC (1, 2); Darek Golik/NIFC (3)
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Program
Chopin / Prelude Op.45
Chopin / Piano Sonata No.2 Op.35
Brahms / 6 Piano Pieces Op.118
F. Liszt / Mephisto-Walzer No.1 S. 514 “Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke”
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