Yoko Hagino, piano

She has technique which is completely different…. -Magazine Clavier-Nova in Japan
Yoko Hagino instilled a defined, poetic character to the cantilena….combines a sensational technique……-Conch Color, Florida Keys Photographic Chronicle

Yoko Hagino was born and raised in Japan, where she began her piano studies at the age of four. As a child, she performed her own compositions, which took her to Europe and the U.S., including performances as a concert soloist with the Czech Symphony, University of Southern California Symphony, Kyoto City Symphony, and Ensemble Orchestra Kanazawa Ms. Hagino has been papered as soloist with Osaka Century Orchestra, U-Mass Boston Chamber Orchestra, Key West Symphony Orchestra, White Rabbit Symphonietta, and performed various of Piano Concerts from Bach to Contemporary. Ms. Hagino won the second prize in the Steinway Society Piano Competition, second prize in the First International Chamber Music Competition, second prize of the All-Japan Selective Competition of the International Mozart Competition and also won a prize in the Ninth Chamber Music Competition of Japan in 1999.

She received her Bachelor's and her Master's degrees with honors from Tokyo National University, where she won its concerto competition. She earned an Artist Diploma from the Longy School of Music, where she studied with Victor Rosenbaum and also won the school's concerto competition. Ms. Hagino completed a Performance Diploma at Boston Conservatory, where she was a student of Michael Lewin and also received the Churchill Scholarship. She has been invited to play at the Royal Academy Recital Series at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Bösendorfer Piano Recital Series in Tokyo, Japan; Webster Concerto Series in Hanover, NH; Harvard Musical Association Boston Steiner Hall, and at Steinway and Sons in Kamen, Germany. She also appeared live on Suisse Romande Radio in Switzerland in 2003. As a devoted chamber musician, she is the Co-Director of "Die Musiker Witz", having given many concerts in various places in Japan. She is also a member of the contemporary music ensemble "White Rabbit", Ensemble in Residency at Harvard University.