Kikuko Ogura

Kikuko Ogura studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and subsequently at the university itself. She furthered her studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, graduating with cum laude honors. She won 1st prize at the Japan Mozart Piano Competition 1989, and 1st prizes in the ensemble section 1993 and fortepiano section 1995 as well as the audience prize at the Bruges International Early Music Competition. She has made many appearance on television and radio. Her more than 50 CDs have been highly recommended by newspapers and music magazines such as ‘Record Geijutsu’. Other awards and prizes include the Grand Prize in the Record Category of the National Arts Festival Japan 2012, Music Pen Club Japan Award (Classical instrumental/vocal section), and an honorable mention in the JXTG Music Awards (western music section). She is the author of ‘An Illustrated History of the Piano’ (Kawade Shobō Shinsha), and has edited the critical edition of “Giustini: Twelve Sonatas” Volumes I and II (Edition Kawai), and a collection of sonatinas entitled ‘Raccolta di Sonatine’ (Ongaku-no-Tomo Sha Corp). She staged forty concerts in the series ‘Kikuko Ogura’s Mozart Klavier Room’. The series ‘Kikuko Ogura – the World of the Fortepiano’ was launched in 2020. She is the producer of the Fortepiano Academy SACLA Japan, and is at present a part-time lecturer at the Tokyo College of Music.