Press Release on March 18, 2008
Piano recital of Ms. Misako Osada at Hussein Cultural Center
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Under the patronage His Excellency Eng. Omar Maani, Lord Mayor of the Greater Amman Municipality, the Embassy of Japan, the National Music Conservatory/King Hussein Foundation, and Music in ME, non profit foundation of the Netherlands, will jointly present a piano recital by Ms. Misako Osada, 19 years old young talented Japanese pianist, at Al-Hussein Cultural Center, Ras Al-Ain, on 18 March 2008 at 7:30 pm. Ms. Osada will perform pieces by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt.
Ms. Osada’s won a recital tour to Jordan at the International Piano Competition for Young Musicians in Holland in October 2006. She was born in Japan in 1989, and began to study the piano when she was six and violin a year later. She made her first appearance as a soloist with an orchestra when she was eight, after winning a prize in the Kanagawa Competition, Japan.
In April 2000 she joined a school in the U.K. where she studied with Marcel Baudet, and began to take part in concerts organized by the school. Though she is young, she has infatuated a number of audiences in performances of both as soloist and accompanist in Japan, U.K., Turkey, and Tunisia, at prestigious music halls such as the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, and the likes. More recently, she shared the concert platform with Sir Cliff Richard at a charity concert in The Menuhin Hall. Ms. Osada now studies in Hannover Hochschule for Music and Theater with Vladimir Krainev.
In addition to the highly skilled performance which is naturally expected, the soloist representing Japanese young talented musicians who study “western” classical music is to express that music has no boundary and a gifted artist can deliver a message beyond the border.
With a vision for educating and training skilled musicians, the National Music Conservatory (NMC) assumed its duties in 1986. Since then, it has played a leading role in up-grading the level of music appreciation, awareness and promotions of art music in Jordan. The NMC has also established close ties with local and international music organizations. It has recently developed in cooperation with Music in Me a joint project of establishing an institute for music therapy, at which students will learn a unique and wonderful power of music to heal people in anguish due to ongoing conflicts.
Inspired by the belief that the enrichment of cultural life can contribute to progress towards peace and mutual understanding across cultural and political boundaries, Music in Me was established in the Netherlands in 2003 to support the musical needs of individuals and groups in the Middle East to whom music would otherwise be denied due to war, poverty and limited access to music education.
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