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of Canada's dynamic young concert artists, Christine Mari
Yoshikawa has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras
throughout her native Canada, the U.S., Europe, and Asia,
including the London Westminster Philharmonic (U.K.), Pazardjik
National Symphony of Bulgaria, Orchestre Philharmonie d'Avignon
France, Sydney Chamber Players, Kammerorchester Dusseldorf
(Germany), Olympia Symphony, Tokyo Youth Symphony and Nagoya
Gakuen Philharmonic (Japan). At the age of 26, her concert career
has taken her to cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, South
Bend, Phoenix, Los Angeles, London, Madrid, Paris, Munich,
Saarbrucken, Prague, Sofia, and Tokyo.
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Christine began her piano
studies at the age of 2 with her mother. After making her first
stage debut at the age of 3, she won the grand prize at the
Canadian National Music Competitions in Quebec City at age 6,
engaging her a performance at the historic Salle Octave-Cremazie
(Grand Theatre de Quebec) in 1981. Subsequently she was invited to
perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Tokyo Meguro
Philharmonic at the age of 9.
In Paris, her teachers include Jean-Luc Pelletier and Zhanna
Woldanski, and by the age of 10, she won her first gold medal and
diplomas with first class honors from the Western Board of Music.
In 1994, she was awarded a full scholarship to study with
distinguished pianist/professor, Gyorgy Sebok of Indiana
University Bloomington, at the Banff Center of the Performing
Arts. She holds two degrees in Piano Performance with Distinction
Honors: a Bachelor of Music from the University of Victoria where
she studied with Arthur Rowe, and a Master of Music from the
University of British Columbia where she studied with Jane Coop.
She is the winner of numerous national and international
competitions and grants, including the prestigious 2003 P.E.O.
National Doctoral Scholar Award, a generous Doctoral research
fellowship awarded from over 600 nominations from universities
across Canada and the United States. Other major national grants
and fellows include the 2000 Charter Fellow from Indiana
University South Bend, the 2000, 2001 and 2002 Katherine K.
Herberger College of Fine Arts Graduate Student Enrichment Grant
from Arizona State University, the British Columbia Arts Council
Grant from the Government of Canada, Grand prizes in the Ehrhart
International Piano Competition, Concours de Musique du Canada,
Kiwanis, and Young Concert Artists' Guild International
Competition, the 1998 Concert Laureate from the Kromeriz
Czech Republic Conservatory International Piano Festival, and the
1993 President's Scholar Award.
Currently residing in the United States, she is a Doctor of
Musical Arts Candidate at Arizona State University where she is a
Regent Scholar, studying with renowned American pianist Robert
Hamilton. She maintains an active performance and teaching
schedule. Highlights this past season have included her solo debut
in Spain, a guest recital appearance at the 2002 Steinway
Festival in Gainesville (FL), performances of concerti by
Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Beethoven and Albright with orchestras in
South Bend (IN), Fort Nelson, New Westminster, Penticton and
London. Upcoming engagements include concerts in Canada, U.K. and
Italy in performances of concerti by Rachmaninoff, Beethoven,
Schumann, a world premiere in Glasgow, Scotland in a performance
of Andrew Albright's Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra with the
Kensington Concertante Chamber Orchestra (U.K.), performances of
Mendelsshon's Sextet with London's Baughan String Quartet and
Double Bassist Jonathan Balzar in the UK, Brazil, Argentina and
Venezuela, and concerts in Oslo, Norway with Canadian Tenor, James
McInnes. She is a member of the Cassals Piano Trio, with upcoming
engagements in Canada, U.S. and Japan. Her performance is
archived at the Canadian Music Center Toronto, Montreal, Halifax
and Vancouver, and her concerts are broadcast on national radio
across Canada.
Ms. Yoshikawa is a member of the BCRMTA (Canada), and MTNA (USA),
and is an active festival adjudicator and examiner. She has
maintained a private piano studio for 9 years in her native
Vancouver, and has served on faculty as a piano teaching assistant
at the University of British Columbia School of Music (1996-1998)
and at Arizona State University School of Music (1998-2001).
Interested intermediate/advanced pianists in the Phoenix area may
contact Ms. Yoshikawa at christine_yoshikawa@postmaster.co.uk,
or by leaving a
voicemail at (480)884-0738 to schedule an appointment.
For more information, please access her website at
http://www.christineyoshikawa.20fr.com
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