Mana AMAKAWA

16 December 1994

Japan

She graduated from the Tokyo College of Music. While she is in Japan, she took the most promising artist prize in the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition. She got an invitation from Sergei Babayan for his piano class and joined it in the Cleveland Institute of Music and got recommendation from Hiroko Nakamura for a solo concert at Sagawabunko. In 2015 she passed preliminary review of the 9th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, the next year she performed at a solo concert at Bösendorfer Tokyo. The same year she got scholarship from Tokyo College of Music for a one-month exchange programme at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest, and participated in master classes by Gábor Farkas and Géza Hargitai. Now she is studying at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music as a master graduate student, with György Nádor and Attila Némethy.

REPERTOIRE:

PRELIMINARY

Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Book 6, BB 105 – Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm No. 1, 4 & 6

Brahms: Ballade in D minor, op. 10/1

Liszt: Transcendental Études – 4. Mazeppa

SEMI-FINAL

Bartók: Sonata, BB 88

Haydn: Keyboard Sonata No. 38 in F major, Hob. XVI:23 – 1. Allegro, 2. Adagio

János Mátyás Stark: Toccata

FINAL

Liszt: Rhapsodie espagnole

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9, op. 68 (‘Black Mass’)

GRAND FINAL

Liszt: Piano Concerto in E-flat major