Produced by Hall Advisor Noriko Ogawa
With Manami Suzuki, The First Prizewinner of The 12th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition

Noriko Ogawa has achieved considerable renown throughout the world since her success at the Leeds International Piano Competition. She appears with all the major European, Japanese and US orchestras. Ogawa is a recording artist for BIS Records. Her Complete Debussy Piano Music has won critical acclaim. Ogawa has received the Japanese Ministry of Education’s Art Prize for her outstanding contribution to the global cultural profile of Japan. Ogawa is the Chairperson of The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, the Advisor of Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall, the Music Director of The Hamamatsu International Piano Academy, and the Founder of ‘Jamie’s Concerts’.

official website　http://www.norikoogawa.com/

First Prize, Chamber Music Award and Audience Prize winner of the 12th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition 2024

First Prize and Audience Award winner of the 92nd Music Competition of Japan 2023

Special Grand Prix and Audience Award winner of the 47th PTNA Piano Competition 2023

Born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, in 2002. She started playing the piano at the age of four. After graduated from the music department of Osaka Prefectural Yuhigaoka High School, she graduated the Tokyo College of Music (Piano Performer Course) as a scholarship student. She is currently student at the Tokyo College of Music Graduate School Master Course as a special scholarship student. She won First Prize in the Hupfer Division of the 27th HUPFER Tosu Piano Competition. Fourth Prize in the piano division of the 32nd Takarazuka Vega Music Competition. Every year since 2020, she has appeared in the “Tokyo College of Music Piano Concert by Piano Performers Course Outstanding Students.” She participated in the Hamamatsu International Piano Academy 2023 and 2024.

In August 2023, she received the Special Grand Prix and Audience Award at the 47th PTNA Piano Competition, as well as the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award and the Steinway Award. In October of the same year, Suzuki won First Prize in the piano section of the 92nd Music Competition of Japan, the Iwatani Prize (audience award), Nomura Prize, Iguchi Prize, Kawai Prize, Miyake Prize, Argerich Arts Foundation Prize, and INPEX Prize. In November 2024, she won First Prize in the 12th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Chamber Music Award, Audience Prize, the Mayor of Sapporo Award, the Mayor of Warsaw Award.

She has studied with Inagaki Chikako, Sato Yoshiaki, Ishii Rie, Nakada Mizuho, Masao Kitsutaka, Masataka Takada and Ishii Katsunori.