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YUKI AMAKO

 

Yuki Amako, born in Japan on June 15, 1999, is currently studying under Professor Pavel Gililov at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, after previously attending the Toho Gakuen School of Music with Professor Nobuhito Nakai. He has won numerous international piano competitions, including second prizes at the Tbilisi International Piano Competition (2022) and the J.N. Hummel International Piano Competition (2024), first prize at the Student Music Concours of Japan (2015), and both third and audience prizes at the Music Competition of Japan (2018). As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras including the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra.

PROGRAM

 

First round

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101

Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915): Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 “Black Mass”

Second round

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897): Klavierstücke, Op. 119

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971): Trois mouvements de Petrouchka

Semifinal

Alban Berg (1885–1935): Piano Sonata, Op. 1

Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877–1952): Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 9

Franz Liszt (1811–1886): Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année: Italie, S. 161: No. 7, “Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata”

Final with Orchestra

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943): Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30