Collection: Kikuko Ogura

Kikuko Ogura studied at the Music High School Attached to the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts and subsequently at the university itself, and later graduated ‘cum laude’ from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. She won 1st prize at the Japan Mozart Piano Competition (piano category), and 1st prizes in the ensemble section and fortepiano section as well as the audience prize at the Bruges International Early Music Competition. She has made many appearance on television and radio, in programs such as ‘Classic Club’, ‘La La La ♪ Classic’, ‘Pianopia’, ‘Culture Radio, the Appeal of Art’ etc. Her more than fifty CDs have been highly recommended by newspapers and music magazines such as ‘Record Geijutsu’. Other awards and prizes include the Grand Prize in the Record Category of the National Arts Festival 2012, Music Pen Club Japan Award (Classical instrumental/vocal section), an honorable mention in the ENEOS Music Awards (western music section) and Kan'ichi Shimofusa Music Award. She is the author of ‘An Illustrated History of the Piano’ (Kawade Shobō Shinsha), and has edited the critical edition of “Giustini: Twelve Sonatas” Volumes I and II (Edition Kawai), and a collection of sonatinas entitled ‘Raccolta di Sonatine’ (Ongaku-no-Tomo Sha Corp). She staged forty concerts in the series ‘Kikuko Ogura’s Mozart Klavier Room’. She is at present undertaking a Hokutopia series entitled ‘A Classical Journey with Kikuko Ogura’ and the series ‘Kikuko Ogura – the World of the Fortepiano’. She is the producer of the Fortepiano Academy SACLA and is at present a lecturer at the Tokyo University of the Arts and the Tokyo College of Music.
[as of January 2023]