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Chisato Kusunoki’s performances are highly regarded for their lyrical intensity and subtle virtuosity. They demonstrate an affinity for such important composer-pianists as Rachmaninoff, Godowsky and Medtner.

The Times remarked on her ‘wonderfully fleet and supple fingers, quick to locate the music’s inner voices…’

Chisato was born in Germany but has lived in London since 1993. She read Music at University College, Oxford, where she won the Gibbs Prize for Performance.

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Whilst at Oxford she performed Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.3 to great acclaim. Subsequently she received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where she gained her Postgraduate Performance Diploma with Distinction.

She studied with Nicholas Austin and Hamish Milne, and has also worked with Dmitri Bashkirov, Alexander Satz, Rosalyn Tureck and Ronald Stevenson.

Chisato was a prize-winner at the Newport International Competition for Young Pianists in 2003.

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