Biography:

Born in Japan, she started taking piano lessons when she was five years old. While a student in primary school, she won the music competition for Pan-Japanese students. Hisako continued studying under the supervision of Professor Takahiro Sonoda, graduated with honors from the Kyoto University of Arts. Went on to develop a steady and intense music career and she eventually became a professor at her Alma Mater. Hisako entered the European music scene by winning the Honorary Diploma at the Maria Canals International music competition and the Gold Award at the Piano 80 competition in Switzerland. She has taken various Masters including the Mozarteum in Salzburg (Internationale Sommerakademiekurs), Solistenklasse with Hans Leygraf at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, a course with Christoph Lieske in Konservatorium Winthertur that earned her the Solistendiplom degree, and more recently a Master Course of Spanish Music with Alicia de Larrocha.　She has also received advice from very important music world personalities such as Vladimir Krainev, Xavier Montsalvatge or Carmen Mompou.

Hisako Hiseki has offered various performances in Spain (Palau de la Musica Catalana, Festival del Castell de Peralada, Templo de la Sagrada Familia, Auditorio Pau Casals, Festival Grec de Barcelona, Auditorio Enrique Granados, Teatro Fortuny, Teatro Faràndula…), Japan (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Symphony Hall en Osaka, Ai-Hall, Aiphonic-Hall, Acros in Fukuoka…), Switzerland, Germany and France. She has also played as a soloist with well-known orchestras in performances that have aired on the Spanish, Japanese and Swiss radio and television. Hisako has taught master classes on Spanish music in Japan. In 1986 she started a series of annual charity concerts aimed at raising money for the construction of the Sagrada Familia. She has been a member of the jury at the Xavier Montsalvatge XXth Century Piano Music Award and nowadays she is a member of the jury at the Barcelona Young Musicians Festival.

She has recorded four CD’s: Rhapsody in the Sky, for the first television channel in Japan, Albéniz’s Suite Ibéria, The Tenth Concert in Sagrada Familia, which includes scores by Ginestera, Turina and Falla, and Granados’s Goyescas, her most recent CD.

She has edited and checked the Suite Ibéria score composed by Albéniz, There is the detailed explanation of how the pieces must be played. In 2004 she offered various concerts with the orchestra Simfònica del Vallès in Figueres (because of the Dalí Year Celebration) and in Reus, in which the next companies collaborated: Pioneer, Sharp, Kenwood, Fujifilm, Honda and Kao. She offered concerts organized by Parlamento de las Religiones del Mundo 2004, in the course of the Forum de las Culturas Barcelona 2004, with Honda and Sharp as collaborators. She has also done tours around Japan and has been in another tour (2005) around Spain, sponsored by Honda and Sharp.

In 2006 participated in the International Festival of Isaac Albéniz Museum, as an invited artist and received the Isaac Albéniz Medal. She was also invited to have a concert in Milan, where she played Suite Ibéria completely. In 2007 she did concerts for the ONG Cesal in Sevill, Sant Cugat and Tenerife and a charity concert in Masnou. At the end of the same year, she did a Christmas concert in Alella and also in Sienna.

                             Barcelona, December 2007

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