On July 4th, 2019 Maki Namekawa premiered the Piano Sonata by Philip Glass at Pianofestival Ruhr in the German town of Essen. The “Salzlager” in the “Zeche Zollverein” was sold out in anticipation of the first piano sonata by the great American composer. After the performance Maki Namekawa and Philip Glass received standing ovations by …
Namekawa breathes this music… -> Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Review Read More »
New York Times, Nov, 20 2019, by Zachary Woolfe, Photo by Hiroyuki Ito Review: Philip Glass, at 82, Unveils His First Piano Sonata Thousands of people took in the bronzed, glacial grandeur of Philip Glass’s “Akhnaten” at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday evening. A couple of miles downtown, a far smaller group heard a very …
Three very favourable reviews (in German) for the Namekawa/Davies concert as well as the Austrian Premiere of the Piano Sonata by Philip Glass
On Oct, 25 Maki and her husband Dennis Russell Davies will be playing at the Music Future Festival of renowned japanese composer Joe Hisaishi. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=BzX-zqFZtUQhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wwGf1E6ptXg&feature=youtu.be
In June ’19 Maki spent a week in her home in New York to rehearse with Philip Glass for the premiere of his first Piano Sonata on July 4th at Klavierfestival Ruhr.
The Ö1 “Pasticcio” award of the month June The Korean composer Isang Yun experienced an unimaginable period of torture and repression in the late 1960s, he was kidnapped by the South Korean government in Darmstadt and charged with no proof of espionage for North Korea and subsequently sentenced to death. His music was and is …
MISHIMA /Closing was streamed 1 mio. times on iTunes. This video is to say “Thank You!” to all of you who have streamed the music, bought a CD or came to my concerts. → GO TO VIDEO
Press Review by Brno Music Friendly City The piano recital by the chief conductor of the Filharmonie Brno Dennis Russell Davies and his wife the pianist Maki Namekawa yesterday in Besední dům offered three works by three significant figures from American minimalism. The concert included minimalist works by Steve Reich in the shape of Piano …
See this short report by Ceska televize about the duo concert on the 24th of March in Brno. → to the report
The Track Orphée from Namekawa/Davies’ new iTunes release “Three Pieces for four Hands” is on Apple Musics’ Classical A-List.
