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 …

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 …

Three very favourable reviews (in German) for the Namekawa/Davies concert as well as the Austrian Premiere of the Piano Sonata by Philip Glass

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 …

Isang Yun | Sunrise Falling is on the longlist of “Deutsche Schallplattenkritik”. 155 music-critics nominated 276 new releases in 32 categories of the last three …

Austrian composer and journalist Helmut Jasbar featured Maki in his radio show on the 21st of November. Listen online until the 28th of November.  

Namekawa’s excellent performance, combining both terraced dynamics and a kind of ‘terraced articulation’, stems from previous work on Glass’s set of 20 Piano Études. Her …

“ On Saturday, at Roulette in Brooklyn, the pianists Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies reveled in a program of Mr. Glass’s piano music, about …

Liederabend: Martin Achrainer und Maki Namekawa begeisterten das Publikum in der Linzer Ursulinenkirche. Liederabend: Martin Achrainer und Maki Namekawa begeisterten das Publikum in der Linzer Ursulinenkirche. Am …

Reichlichen Beifall erntete auch die Pianistin Maki Namekawa für ihre technisch souveräne und musikalisch überzeugende Interpretation von Igor Strawinskys “Concerto für Klavier, Bläser, Pauken und …

Mit einem phänomenalen Konzert feierte Dennis Russel Davies mit dem groß aufspielendem Bruckner Orchester im ausverkauften Linzer Brucknerhaus einen glänzenden Abschluss der AK Classics-Serie. Auch die …

“THE COMPLETE PIANO ETUDES” 18.02.2015 von Helmut Rohm 1 Ein durchaus gewaltiger, ein suggestiver Sog vermag auszugehen von der Musik des Amerikaners Philip Glass. Überlässt man sich den …

Linzer Festival Concluded Brilliantly with a Gesamtkunstwerk of Music by Philip Glass and Images by Cori Olan An audiovisual Gesamtkunstwerk set amidst the industrial ambience of …