Music Events
Guest Artist Recital: Mika Sasaki, piano
Date and Time
Friday, January 19, 2018 7:30 PM
Description
Guest Artist, Mika Sasaki, performs in recital. The next day, Mika will work with GVSU Piano students in a Master Class at 10:00am on Saturday, January 20, 2018. Both events are free and open to the public.
About Mika Sasaki:
Pianist Mika Sasaki has established herself as a sought-after
soloist, chamber musician, and emerging educator. Since her concerto
debut with the Sinfonia of Cambridge (U.K.) at age seven, she
appeared twice with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and more
recently with the 92Y Orchestra in New York City. She has performed
at venues including the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, Steinway
Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Peter J. Sharp Theater, Palazzo Chigi
Saracini (Italy), Minato Mirai Hall (Japan), Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
(Japan), Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, and live on WQXR radio. Her solo
debut album “Obsidian: Mika Sasaki plays Clara Schumann” was
released on Yarlung Records in 2016, highly acclaimed by the Online
Merker as “illuminat[ing] the artistic inspiration and creative
exchange between these three Romantic souls,” Clara Schumann, Robert
Schumann, and Johannes Brahms.
Learn more about Mika here.
Information
For more information, please visit: http://www.gvsu.edu/piano/guest-recital-and-masterclass-mika-sasaki-50.htm
Contact
Office of Music, Theatre, and Dance
(616) 331-3484