Momo Kodama

Momo Kodama’s international upbringing is reflected in her music options, particularly marrying the music of France with this of Japan. Both Momo and her sister Mari had been blessed in Osaka, but elevated in European countries, where they examined piano with Germaine Mounier on the Paris Conservatoire. When Momo gained the 1991 Munich Competition, she was its youngest champion to time. Kodama began building her concert profession using the leading orchestra of Japan: the NHK Symphony, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, and the brand new Japan Philharmonic. She’s since made an appearance with many well-respected Western european orchestras and conductors, aswell such as Israel, Brazil, and america. Kodama’s repertoire contains much of the present day French books for piano. She often performs the music of Messiaen, having been inspired by Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, who requested that she and Isabelle Faust premiere Messiaen’s 1933 Fantaisie put violon et piano, which acquired hardly ever been publically performed. Kodama commissioned Toshio Hosokawa to create Stunden Blumen (2008) using the same instrumentation as Messiaen’s Quatuor put la fin du temps. She, Xavier Phillips, Carolin Widmann, and Jörg Widmann performed both on the Lucerne Celebration and somewhere else. Jörg Widmann in addition has written music on her behalf, as provides Ichiro Nodaira. Various other music artists she’s performed with consist of violinists Christian Tetzlaff and Renaud Capuçon, cellists Steven Isserlis and Rohan de Saram, and her sister, Mari. Her initial commercial documenting was a Debussy plan, released in 2002, accompanied by among Chopin in 2003. In 2012, ECM released her documenting La Vallée des Cloches, offering the music of Ravel, Messiaen, and Takemitsu.