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Mari Kodama
Mari Kodama in L'Assomption, Québec, Canada at the Hector-Charland Theatre
Background information
BornOsaka, Japan
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)Pianist
Instrument(s)Piano
Years active1987–present
Websitemarikodama.com

Mari Kodama (児玉 麻里, Kodama Mari) (born 1967) is a classical pianist who has performed in Europe, North America and Japan.

Background[edit]

Kodama was born in Osaka, Japan in 1967 and raised in Germany and Paris, France[1] due to her father's postings in these countries as well as in Switzerland and England.[2] She and her sister Momo are the daughters of a pianist mother and banker father. Their mother gave up performances for teaching and Mari assuming everyone played piano. She wanted to begin playing at age 2, but her parents thought she was too young. She was able to read notes by age three. By the age of 10, she decided to be a concert pianist by not returning to Japan to prepare for university.[2] She studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris starting at age 14 under Germaine Mounier, and chamber music under Geneviève Joy-Dutilleux. She performed in various European competitions while still a teenager. She made her Japanese debut in 1984 at age 17 and was immediately a success.[2]

Performances[edit]

Her first major debut was in 1987 playing Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the London Philharmonic.[2] Kodama made her debut at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in 1995.[3]

She has collaborated with Tatiana Nikolaeva and Alfred Brendel,[3] as well as her sister Momo Kodama at various venues including the 2014 Festival Internacional Cervantino.[4]

Kodama has performed throughout Europe, the United States, and Japan, and has appeared at venues such as Mostly Mozart, Bard Music Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, California's Midsummer Mozart Festival, and European festivals such as those in Lockenhaus, Lyon, Montpelier, Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence, Aldeburgh, Verbier, La Roque-d’Anthéron and Évian.[3]

In 2002, she gave her final performance of the complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle, which she presented over three consecutive seasons in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California.

Kodama is a founding member of chamber music festivals in San Francisco/USA and Postignano/Italy. She and her husband, conductor Kent Nagano, present Musical Days at Forest Hill.

Personal life[edit]

Kodama is married to conductor Kent Nagano.[5] They have one daughter, Karin Kei Nagano.[6]

Discography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Mari Kodama, pianist". Colbert Artists Management. March 2012.
  • ^ a b c d Henken, John (November 21, 1999). "A Magnum of Opuses". Retrieved May 19, 2015.
  • ^ a b c "Biography". Mari Kodama. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
  • ^ 42 Festival Internacional Cervantino. Mexico: CONACULTA. 2014. p. 45.
  • ^ Bill Brownstein (2015-05-22). "The maestro revealed: Kent Nagano marches to his own beat". Montreal Gzzette. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
  • ^ Bill Brownstein (2017-04-01). "From musical star to medical student: Karin Kei Nagano takes her cue from her parents". Montreal Gzzette. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
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