Winner's Recital - Yasuo Kurimoto, piano

579 Worcester Street,Natick MA 01760

12 November, 2022

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Musical Program:Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915):Etudes Op.2-1, Op.8-2,3,8,12　 Preludes Op.11-1,2,11,12,13,24, Op.16 Piano Sonata No.4 Op.30 2 Poems Op.32 Piano Sonata No.5 Op.53 This year marks the 150th anniversary of Scriabin's birth. During the short period before his death at the young age of 43, Scriabin's style underwent a dramatic transformation, from his early works, which have been described as late Romantic, through his middle period, when he developed more originality, to his late period, when he became devoted to theosophy and established his own mysticism. In this concert, the program is arranged chronologically, beginning with the early Romantic works and ending with Sonata No. 5, a monumental work that stands at the watershed between the end of the middle period and the late period, when he turned to mysticism. Yasuo KurimotoAn ophthalmologist/medical researcher by profession and served as clinical director and primary surgeon for the world's first iPS cell therapy. Although had stopped playing the piano after graduating from graduate school, resumed playing the piano at the age of 40 while resident in Boston as a postdoctoral researcher because of the first Boston Amateur Piano Competition. After returning to Japan two years later, won a number of piano competitions in Japan, and in 2019, became the winner of the Boston International Piano Competition. Studied with Keiji Serizawa, Ernst F. Seiler, Kuri Kojima, and coached with A Hironao Suzuki, Aya Nagatomi, Masahiro Saito, Yukio Yokoyama, Rika Miyatani, Ichiro Kaneko, Yusuke Kikuchi, Maya Kagami, Marie Kiyone, Eri Mantani, Alexander Paley, Michael Lewin, Maria Lettberg, Janice Weber, John Bell Young, Joseph Bloch, and Jorg Demus.