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Review: Scriabin – Vers la Flamme – Yevgeny Sudbin, Piano

Azusa Ueno - May 21, 2025May 21, 2025

Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin presents a Scriabin program, including Vers la flamme, piano sonatas No. 4 & 10, preludes and etudes.

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Review: Shostakovich – The Piano Concertos, Solo Works – Yuja Wang

Azusa Ueno - May 11, 2025May 12, 2025

Yuja Wang performs Shostakovich’s two piano concertos and solo works, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons.

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Review: Mozart – Haffner-Akademie – Anna Prohaska, Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi

Azusa Ueno - May 7, 2025May 7, 2025

Mozart’s opera arias and the Haffner symphony, performed by Soprano Anna Prohaska with Ensemble Resonanz under Riccardo Minasi.

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Review: ‘Beethoven 5, Vol. 3’ – Jonathan Biss

Azusa Ueno - April 30, 2025May 1, 2025

Jonathan Biss continues his Beethoven piano concertos cycle, with the second concerto, adding Timo Andres’ ‘the Blind Banister’.

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Review: Liszt – Via Crucis & Solo Works – Leif Ove Andsnes

Azusa Ueno - April 21, 2025April 30, 2025

Leif Ove Andsnes performs Liszt’s Consolations and late religious works with The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir.

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Review: Brahms – Piano Quartets No. 2 & 3 – Zimerman, Nowak, Budnik, Okamoto

Azusa Ueno - April 16, 2025April 30, 2025

Krystian Zimerman joins Maria Nowak, Katarzyna Budnik and Yuya Okamoto in Brahms’ piano quartets No. 2 and 3.

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Review: Dvořák and Price – Piano Quintet – Takács Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin

Azusa Ueno - April 9, 2025April 9, 2025

Marc-André Hamelin joins the Takács Quartet in Dvořák and Price’s piano quintets.

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Review: Bach – Keyboard Concertos – Beatrice Rana

Azusa Ueno - March 31, 2025April 30, 2025

Pianist Beatrice Rana lead the Amsterdam Sinfonietta in Bach’s keyboard concertos.

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Review: “Preludes” – Jan Lisiecki, Piano

Azusa Ueno - March 26, 2025December 1, 2025

Jan Lisiecki plays preludes by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Bach, Messiaen and Górecki.

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Review: Lalo, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate – Works For Violin and Orchestra – James Ehnes

Azusa Ueno - March 19, 2025March 4, 2026

James Ehnes in Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole, Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 3, and Sarasate’s Carmen Concert Fantasy, with Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic.

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Azusa Ueno

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Dr. Azusa Ueno has a twenty-five-year career as a classical pianist. She has made concert appearances in New York City, Los Angeles, Connecticut, New Jersey, and internationally in Japan and the Czech Republic. Azusa attended the Manhattan School of Music, the Juilliard School, and Yale University. Her doctoral dissertation, an analysis of the life and works of American composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes, combined the disciplines of psychology and music. A sought-after lecturer, she has presented on Griffes, the piano works of Chopin and Debussy, and the history of 20th-century American music. Azusa is also an avid collaborative pianist and has performed the complete Schubert song cycles.

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