Duo Ozawa – Duo Ozawa Blessing – Japan CD

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Duo Ozawa

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The changing of the seasons, the pulse of life, and the sounds of life and singing. The duo will present a selection of works that depict this world filled with blessings, with the transparent and dynamic expression that only sister duos can deliver. Duo OZAWA is the piano duo of the Ozawa sisters, Denae and Kane, who both graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music and studied in Germany. They formed the duo in 2008 when they were both students at Toho Girls’ High School for Music. Kanae Ozawa (Primo): Graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music, Toho Girls’ Senior High School of Music, and Toho Gakuen School of Music, Toho Gakuen School of Music. She holds a master’s degree from the Musikhochschule der Musikfreunde Lübeck, Germany. Studied under Yoko Hori, Yoshihiro Hoshino, Josef Anton Scherer, and Mamphret Auster. Denae Ozawa (Second): Graduated from Toho Girls’ High School of Music and Toho Gakuen School of Music. She holds a master’s degree from Anton Rubinstein Academy in Germany and La Spezia Conservatory in Italy. She studied under Nozomi Nakamura, Mami Kikuchi, Fujiko Yamada, Gisela Gori, and Leontina Margulis. After returning to Japan in 2018 after completing her studies in Germany, she began performing as Duo OZAWA. They have given piano duo recitals in various places and appeared in many concerts. In her home prefecture of Ibaraki, she passed an audition and performed in the “28th Ibaraki no Meitei, Meishin Singers” and the “2018 Ibaraki Prefecture Arts Festival Prefectural Citizens’ Concerts”.She has been actively challenging new forms of performance activities, such as posting performance videos on the Internet and appearing in live-streamed concerts, since the Corona Disaster, and is expanding her field of activities. She won the first prize in the ensemble category at the 2nd Tiziano Rossetti International Music Competition (Switzerland), the first prize in the double concerto category at the 8th Odin International Music Competition (Estonia), the first prize at the 2022 Rocky Mountain Chamber Music Competition (Canada), the gold medal and the best Rosenblatt prize in the double concerto category at the 2022 Excellence Piano Awards Gold Prize and Best Rosenblatt Prize in the Four-in-one Piano Competition, Grand Prize in the 3rd JPPA Four-in-one Piano Competition, First Prize and Ensemble Prize in the Ensemble Division of the 3rd and 4th Japan Music Competition, Gold Prize and Chunichi Shimbun Award in the Four-in-one Piano Division of the 36th Aichi Piano Competition, Silver Prize in the Two Piano Division of the 36th Aichi Piano Competition, and the 21st Osaka International Piano Competition. Second prize in the second prize division of the 21st Osaka International Music Competition, and many other prizes. Studied under Takashi Fujii and Yoshie Shiromizu at the Piano Duo D’Or.